Use SATA-disk in Virtual Machine

[jonaskellens]

Is it possible to use sata-disks in stead of ide-disks in a virtual machine ?

When I install CentOS now in a virtual machine I see /dev/hda and /dev/hdb...

I would like to see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.

I would like to take screenshots of my Virtual instal of CentOS with sda and sdb, because in real life my harddisks are also sata-disks...


I run VirtualBox 2.1.4 on Fedora 10.

[vbox4me2]

Provided the Guest has the drivers it should work, see the harddisk VM settings.

[jonaskellens]

What harddisk VM settings do you mean ?

When I look at the settings for the hard disk( s ), I can only mark "enable SATA controller", and that's it for settings...

This setting is marked... but no sda...

[vbox4me2]

See the manual, the first few IDE entries are not really sata, if I remember correctly as of entry sata-5 its really sata.

[jonaskellens]

See the manual, the first few IDE entries are not really sata, if I remember correctly as of entry sata-5 its really sata.

Yes indeed, I'm also checking the manual. Apparently I need to modify these first four with VBoxManage modifyvm...