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Selecting a Disk Type

You can select the type of disk that the virtual machine will use:

VMware recommends that new users gain experience with the product by initially installing a guest operating system on a virtual disk because virtual disks are easier to set up and use. However, be aware that it is not possible to convert an entire virtual disk to a raw disk or vice versa.

Note: Using an existing disk partition is recommended for advanced users only.

By default, when you select to create a virtual disk option, Workstation creates a persistent virtual disk. You can use the Configuration Editor to change the disk mode to undoable or nonpersistent. You can install a new operating system onto the virtual disk file without repartitioning a physical disk or even rebooting the host system. Virtual disks are limited to a maximum of 128GB for IDE virtual hard disks or 256GB for SCSI virtual hard disks.

Note: Workstation does not support using existing disk partitions on RAID or network disk drives. Use of existing disk partition on SCSI disk drives is experimental at this time.

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