.....................................................................135 vi Contents 5.2 Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD)...................................................................... 139 5.3.1 Creating a Virtual Hard Disk Image.......................................................................... 141 5.3.2 Creating a Virtual Optical Disk Image..................................... .........142 5.3.3 Creating a Virtual Floppy Disk Image....................................................................... 142 5.4 Special Image Write Modes.......................................

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . 31 1.15.9 Creating New Cloud Instances from a Custom Image . . . . . . . . . . . 32 1.15.10 Using VBoxManage Commands With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure . . Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 5.4 Special Image Write FUSE Mounting a Virtual Disk Image . . . . . . . . 105 5.11.1 Viewing Detailed Information About a Virtual Disk Image . . . . . . . . 105 5.11.2 Mounting a Virtual Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disk Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 6.2 Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 6.3 The Virtual Media Manager Hard Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 6.3.2 Creating a Virtual Optical Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.3.3 Creating a Virtual Floppy Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.4 Special Image Write Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 6.5 Differencing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disk Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 6.2 Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 6.3 The Virtual Media Manager Hard Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 6.3.2 Creating a Virtual Optical Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.3.3 Creating a Virtual Floppy Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.4 Special Image Write Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 6.5 Differencing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disk Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 6.2 Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 6.3 The Virtual Media Manager Hard Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 6.3.2 Creating a Virtual Optical Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.3.3 Creating a Virtual Floppy Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.4 Special Image Write Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 6.5 Differencing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disk Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 5.2 Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager Hard Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 5.3.2 Creating a Virtual Optical Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 5.3.3 Creating a Virtual Floppy Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 5.4 Special Image Write Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 5.5 Differencing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disk Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 5.2 Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager Hard Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 5.3.2 Creating a Virtual Optical Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 5.3.3 Creating a Virtual Floppy Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 5.4 Special Image Write Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 5.5 Differencing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disk Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 5.2 Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager Hard Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 5.3.2 Creating a Virtual Optical Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 5.3.3 Creating a Virtual Floppy Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 5.4 Special Image Write Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 5.5 Differencing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

85 5.2 Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 5.4 Special image write modes . degree, VirtualBox is functionally identical on all of the host platforms, and the same file and image formats are used. This allows you to run virtual machines created on one host on another host with (see chapter 5, Virtual storage, page 85 for details), but the most common way is to use a large image file on your “real” hard disk, whose contents VirtualBox presents to your VM as if it were a complete

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1.14.8 Creating New Cloud Instances from a Custom Image . . . . . . . . . . . 29 1.15 Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.4 Special Image Write FUSE Mounting a Virtual Disk Image . . . . . . . . 101 5.11.1 Viewing Detailed Information About a Virtual Disk Image . . . . . . . . 101 5.11.2 Mounting a Virtual Disk Image . . . . . . . . . . . . .