VirtualBox

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE topic
3 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
4<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="storage">
5 <title>Virtual Storage</title>
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7 <body>
8 <p>
9 As the virtual machine will most probably expect to see a hard disk
10 built into its virtual computer, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> must be able to
11 present real storage to the guest as a virtual hard disk. There are
12 presently three methods by which to achieve this:
13 </p>
14 <ul>
15 <li>
16 <p>
17 <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can use large image files on a real hard disk and
18 present them to a guest as a virtual hard disk. This is the most
19 common method, described in <xref href="vdidetails.dita#vdidetails"/>.
20 </p>
21 </li>
22 <li>
23 <p>
24 iSCSI storage servers can be attached to <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. This is
25 described in <xref href="storage-iscsi.dita#storage-iscsi"/>.
26 </p>
27 </li>
28 <li>
29 <p>
30 You can allow a virtual machine to access one of your host disks
31 directly. This is an advanced feature, described in
32 <xref href="rawdisk.dita">Using a Raw Host Hard Disk From a Guest</xref>.
33 </p>
34 </li>
35 </ul>
36 <p>
37 Each such virtual storage device, such as an image file, iSCSI
38 target, or physical hard disk, needs to be connected to the virtual
39 hard disk controller that <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> presents to a virtual
40 machine. This is explained in the next section.
41 </p>
42 </body>
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