Installion questions

Arizona - Willie · Post by **Arizona - Willie** » 29. Jan 2009, 19:01

I was wondering if it would be ok to install virtual box on my XP Home SP3 system that has a C drive with 2 SATA drives in a RAID 0 configuration.

Reading through the documentation it says it isn't recommended to install the os on SATA drives. I presume they mean the guest OS.

So I am now wondering if I could install an old 40 gig IDE hard drive in a spare slot and install Virtual Box on that drive and then install Windows 7 on the virtual drive on the IDE drive.

Would that work ok?

My primary concern is that NOTHING should happen to my primary C drive.
I do have multiple backups but would not like to have to reformat and go through setting up the RAID configuration again and all that.

And, with my luck, the backups wouldn't work even though they have been validated.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 30. Jan 2009, 21:08

You can define the install location and the default folder for the VMs (config files and VDI's). This is about the safest you can go.

I do wonder what you mean with "not recommended to install on SATA". Which documentation are you referring to? All computers that you can buy at a store these days have SATA drives. Some don't even have an IDE controller anymore.