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Enabling a plain disk from a virtual machine
When a plain disk is created, it immediately consumes as much space as its
allocated size. This is in contrast to a virtual disk, which consumes only as
much space as needed and grows to its maximum size. Therefore, when a plain
disk is created, there must be enough space in the same directory for the
description files created by the Configuration Editor.
Plain disks are a disk type with the following attributes:
- They consume space immediately, so designated space is pre-allocated to them.
- A native partition can be transferred into plain disk format.
- They may have better performance than virtual disks.
- They can span multiple physical disk partitions.
To add a plain disk:
- Open the
Configuration Editor and add an IDE or SCSI drive.
- Choose Plain
Disk from the "Disk Type"
field.
- Make a selection
from the "Disk Mode" field.
- Choose a disk file for the plain disk (ending with the .pln extension) in the
"Name" field.
- Click Install.
- Click OK.
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