Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 5.4 Special image write 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 71 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

Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 5.4 Special image write 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 75 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

Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5.4 Special image write 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 73 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

Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 5.4 Special image write 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 71 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

Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 5.4 Special image write 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 71 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

both well-documented and well-tested. (The same applies to VBoxHeadless, which is not shown in the image.) 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM There are several ways in (where to find the disk image, typically a file name; if empty, then the disk should be created on import) 6. Image size (optional unsigned integer indicating the size of the image, which need not necessarily same as the values specified above, since the image may be compressed or sparse; -1 if not specified) 7. Chunk size (optional unsigned integer if the image is split into chunks; presently unsup- ported

both well-documented and well-tested. (The same applies to VBoxHeadless, which is not shown in the image.) 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM There are several ways in which (where to find the disk image, typically a file name; if empty, then the disk should be created on import) 6. Image size (optional unsigned integer indicating the size of the image, which need not necessarily same as the values specified above, since the image may be compressed or sparse; -1 if not specified) 7. Chunk size (optional unsigned integer if the image is split into chunks; presently unsup- ported

both well-documented and well-tested. (The same applies to VBoxHeadless, which is not shown in the image.) 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM There are several ways in (where to find the disk image, typically a file name; if empty, then the disk should be created on import) 6. Image size (optional unsigned integer indicating the size of the image, which need not necessarily same as the values specified above, since the image may be compressed or sparse; -1 if not specified) 7. Chunk size (optional unsigned integer if the image is split into chunks; presently unsup- ported

Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 5.4 Special image write 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 71 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

Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5.4 Special image write 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 72 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