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| 3 | PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 4 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="storage">
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| 5 | <title>Virtual Storage</title>
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p>As the virtual machine will most probably expect to see a hard disk built into its virtual computer, <ph
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| 9 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> must be able to present real storage to the guest as a virtual
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| 10 | hard disk. There are presently three methods by which to achieve this: </p>
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| 11 | <ul>
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| 13 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can use large image files on a real hard disk
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| 14 | and present them to a guest as a virtual hard disk. This is the most common method, described in <xref
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| 15 | href="vdidetails.dita#vdidetails"/>. </p>
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| 16 | </li>
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| 17 | <li>
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| 18 | <p>
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| 19 | iSCSI storage servers can be attached to <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. This is
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| 20 | described in <xref href="storage-iscsi.dita#storage-iscsi"/>.
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| 21 | </p>
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| 22 | </li>
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| 23 | <li>
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| 24 | <p>
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| 25 | You can allow a virtual machine to access one of your host disks
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| 26 | directly. This is an advanced feature, described in
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| 27 | <xref href="rawdisk.dita">Using a Raw Host Hard Disk From a Guest</xref>.
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| 28 | </p>
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| 29 | </li>
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| 30 | </ul>
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| 31 | <p>
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| 32 | Each such virtual storage device, such as an image file, iSCSI
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| 33 | target, or physical hard disk, needs to be connected to the virtual
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| 34 | hard disk controller that <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> presents to a virtual
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| 35 | machine. This is explained in the next section.
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| 36 | </p>
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| 37 | </body>
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| 49 | </topic>
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