VirtualBox

source: vbox/trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/storage.dita@ 105388

Last change on this file since 105388 was 105335, checked in by vboxsync, 8 months ago

FE/Qt: bugref:10705. Merging r6149 from doc team's repo.

  • Property svn:eol-style set to native
  • Property svn:keywords set to Id Revision
File size: 1.9 KB
Line 
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>
6
7 <body>
8 <p>As the virtual machine will most probably expect to see a hard disk built into its virtual computer, <ph
9 conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> must be able to present real storage to the guest as a virtual
10 hard disk. There are presently three methods by which to achieve this: </p>
11 <ul>
12 <li>
13 <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can use large image files on a real hard disk
14 and present them to a guest as a virtual hard disk. This is the most common method, described in <xref
15 href="vdidetails.dita#vdidetails"/>. </p>
16 </li>
17 <li>
18 <p>
19 iSCSI storage servers can be attached to <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. This is
20 described in <xref href="storage-iscsi.dita#storage-iscsi"/>.
21 </p>
22 </li>
23 <li>
24 <p>
25 You can allow a virtual machine to access one of your host disks
26 directly. This is an advanced feature, described in
27 <xref href="rawdisk.dita">Using a Raw Host Hard Disk From a Guest</xref>.
28 </p>
29 </li>
30 </ul>
31 <p>
32 Each such virtual storage device, such as an image file, iSCSI
33 target, or physical hard disk, needs to be connected to the virtual
34 hard disk controller that <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> presents to a virtual
35 machine. This is explained in the next section.
36 </p>
37 </body>
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49 </topic>
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.

© 2025 Oracle Support Privacy / Do Not Sell My Info Terms of Use Trademark Policy Automated Access Etiquette