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Chapter 4 Creating and Upgrading a Virtual Machine

Normal and Independent Disk Modes

TheoptiontoselectnormalorindependentmodeisavailableonLinuxhostsforcustom

configurationsonly.Normalmodemeansyouwanttoincludedisksinanysnapshots

youtake.Ifyoudonotwantdataonthedisktoberecordedwhenyoutakeasnapshot

ofthevirtualmachine,yo

ucanconfigurethedisktobeindependent.

Ifyouconfigurethedisktobeindependent,youcanfurtherspecifywhetherchanges

youmaketothediskaretopersistorbediscardedwhenyoupoweroffthevirtual

machineorrestoreittoasnapshot.

AlthoughforWindowshosts,thisc

onfigurationsett

ingisnotavailableintheNew

VirtualMachinewizard,youcanexcludevirtualdisksfromsnapshotsbyusingthe

virtualmachinesettingseditor.See“ExcludeaVirtualDiskfromSnapshots”on

page 207.

Virtual Disks and Physical Disks

Thisoptionisavailableforcustomconfigurationsonly.Ifyouuseatypical

configuration,anewvirtualdiskiscreatedandusedforthevirtualmachine.Virtual

disksarethebestchoiceformostvirtualmachines.Theyareeasytosetupandcanbe 

movedtonewlocationsonthesam

ehostcomputerortodifferenthostcomputers.

Evenforcustomconfigurations,youusuallychoosetheoptionCreateaNewVirtual

Disk.InsomecasesyoumightwanttochooseUseanExistingVirtualDisk,tousea

virtualdiskyoucreatedpreviously.Thewizarddisplaysapageforyoutoenterth

e

pathorbrow

setotheexistingvirtualdisk(.vmdk)file.

Itispossibletouseaphysicalharddisk(a“raw”disk)orIDEdiskpartitioninavirtual

machine.Donotuseaphysicaldiskconfigurationunlessyouareanexpertuser.See

“UsingPhysicalDisksinaVi

rtualMachine”onpage 244.

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