This chapter provides detailed information on the different virtual storage options available in VirtualBox and how they work.
When you create a guest VM, it expects to see a hard disk where it stores the data. VirtualBox needs to present real storage to this guest VM, and this guest VM sees the storage as a virtual hard disk.
There are three ways to achieve this:
Each of the preceding options will be described in detail.
Each of the virtual storage device types presented in this section needs to be connected to the virtual hard disk controller, which VirtualBox presents to a virtual machine as its hard disk. There are different disk controller standards, and VirtualBox supports most of the commonly used disk controllers. In the next sections, we will discuss the different disk controllers.
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