VirtualBox

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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, Oracle VM VirtualBox 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>
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17 Oracle VM VirtualBox 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 Oracle VM VirtualBox. 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 Oracle VM VirtualBox presents to a virtual
40 machine. This is explained in the next section.
41 </p>
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