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Friends,

Just created a new guest Windows XP virtual box and it is running perfect to my specs. I noticed one thing is that my drive that I selected is IDE and my computer has sata drives. Now, mind you that I am running 6GB ram, Intel quad core i7 processor and ssd in my computer.

Would it do any justice to convert the ide virtual drive to a sata? Would I honestly notice any difference?

Please advise and Thank You,

Tvos

There are benefits to using SATA or SCSI. Not sure you would see much of an improvement on SSD though. To switch to SATA you would need the Intel drivers for it as an img file. Xp does not have them native.

Been searching for a similar info for which setup is possible if the computer have IDE.

Can a guest machine use SATA if that's the case?

Host hardware does not matter for which hardware is exposed to the VM, as they are completely separate. For all it cares you run the VM on a server with SAS controllers and give the VM IDE or SATA ones.

Sasquatch wrote:Host hardware does not matter for which hardware is exposed to the VM, as they are completely separate. For all it cares you run the VM on a server with SAS controllers and give the VM IDE or SATA ones.

Thanks for answer, great to know.