Preferred controller types

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

Am 16.01.2014 22:33 schrieb "Mike Tancsa" <mike at sentex.net>:
>
> On 1/16/2014 2:59 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > VBoxManage storagectl rc5i386 --name "SATA" --add sata --controller
> > IntelAHCI --portcount 4 --bootable on
> > VBoxManage storageattach "rc5i386" --storagectl "SATA" --port 0 --device
> > 0 --type hdd --medium FreeBSD-10.0-RC5-i386-20140108-r260430.vmdk
>
> OK, next problem. If I set the disks to SATA, doing something simple
> like an SVN checkout causes all sorts of disk errors and then a panic.
> If I instead set the controller to just IDE, all is OK.
>
> What is the optimal chipset and driver config for FreeBSD as a host and
> guest ?

Defaults should be preferred and you should try to avoid ICH9. I was told
from upstream that ich9 is still not the default because it just doesn't
work reliable enough in all cases. So be carefull with that.