John, On Tuesday 16 October 2012 08:44:47 John A. Wallace wrote: > One more question arises in regard to this, does Virtual Box provide > drivers for the SATA Controllers/Disks for Windows XP to use for attaching > one of these devies? I had thought that they would be in the guest > additions, but apparently not. The lack of native support for these > devices by Windows XP explains how I ended up with the IDE attachment, but > I do still want to move it to SATA. Thanks.
VirtualBox does not provide Windows drivers to support SATA. There is no reason to do so. If the guest supports SATA then it will surely provide drivers for this hardware itself. VirtualBox does full virtualization, that is, the guest runs on virtual hardware and the VMM does not really care which guest it runs. The VirtualBox Guest Additions help certain guests to improve the communication with the VMM and the host by taking some shortcuts. This technique is also known as 'paravirtualization'. And regarding your original question: Yes, it would be possible to just create a disk, attach it to the virtual SATA controller and copy the data from the IDE disk to the SATA controller. But that means that you need SATA drivers for Windows XP from somewhere and that means also that you need to convince Windows somehow to boot from the SATA disk afterwards, which will be very difficult as Windows is stubborn when it comes to changing the disk controller of the system hard disk. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher
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