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I'm running virtual box 3.02 on a windows xp host.

Is there any benefit to using emulated SCSI as opposed to the emulated ide for attaching drives. The documentation states:

Like a real SATA controller, VirtualBox’s virtual SATA controller operates faster and also consumes less CPU resources than the virtual IDE controller.

I know in other platforms Emulated SCSI is faster as well. Does anyone know if that holds true in virtual box?

Which method typically yields the best performance?

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Let's see ... the documentation says it's faster, you know it's faster on other platforms, and yet you're asking this question?

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Perhaps my question wasn't framed very clearly. Do you get the same performance advantages from SCSI as SATA or is the performance in between SATA and IDE? I was wondering if it was an omission in the documentation. I don't think I can switch to SATA with AHCI mode after installing the guest and the docs recommend seem to discourage using it. – Jason Horner Aug 5 '09 at 1:35
Your question wasn't framed clearly at all. I'd definitely edit it if you can. – Karl Katzke Aug 5 '09 at 3:41
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