Changeset 99797 in vbox for trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/vdidetails.dita
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r99497 r99797 9 9 Disk image files reside on the host system and are seen by the 10 10 guest systems as hard disks of a certain geometry. When a guest OS 11 reads from or writes to a hard disk, Oracle VM VirtualBoxredirects the11 reads from or writes to a hard disk, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> redirects the 12 12 request to the image file. 13 13 </p> … … 15 15 Like a physical disk, a virtual disk has a size, or capacity, 16 16 which must be specified when the image file is created. As opposed 17 to a physical disk however, Oracle VM VirtualBoxenables you to expand17 to a physical disk however, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> enables you to expand 18 18 an image file after creation, even if it has data already. See 19 19 <xref href="vboxmanage-modifymedium.dita"/>. 20 20 </p> 21 21 <p> 22 Oracle VM VirtualBoxsupports the following types of disk image files:22 <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> supports the following types of disk image files: 23 23 </p> 24 24 <ul> 25 25 <li> 26 26 <p> 27 <b outputclass="bold">VDI.</b> Normally, Oracle VM VirtualBox27 <b outputclass="bold">VDI.</b> Normally, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> 28 28 uses its own container format for guest hard disks. This is 29 29 called a Virtual Disk Image (VDI) file. This format is used … … 33 33 <li> 34 34 <p> 35 <b outputclass="bold">VMDK.</b> Oracle VM VirtualBoxalso35 <b outputclass="bold">VMDK.</b> <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> also 36 36 fully supports the popular and open VMDK container format that 37 37 is used by many other virtualization products, such as VMware. … … 40 40 <li> 41 41 <p> 42 <b outputclass="bold">VHD.</b> Oracle VM VirtualBoxalso42 <b outputclass="bold">VHD.</b> <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> also 43 43 fully supports the VHD format used by Microsoft. 44 44 </p> … … 83 83 drive reaches the maximum capacity chosen when the drive was 84 84 created. While this format takes less space initially, the 85 fact that Oracle VM VirtualBoxneeds to expand the image file85 fact that <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> needs to expand the image file 86 86 consumes additional computing resources, so until the disk 87 87 file size has stabilized, write operations may be slower than
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