automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 10 Technical background 148 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 10.1.1 Machines created by VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically expanding file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only number of snapshots – the only limitation is the size of your disks. Keep in mind that each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus needs some disk space; see the next section for details

automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10 Technical background 153 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 10.1.1 Machines created by VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically expanding file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host: each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. (See the next section for details

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 5 Contents 10 Technical background 151 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 10.1.1 Machines created by VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically expanding file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host: each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. (See the next section for details

automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 10 Technical background 152 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10.1.1 Machines created by VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically expanding file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host: each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. (See the next section for details

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 10 Technical background 161 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 10.1.1 Machines created by VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically allocated file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host: each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. (See the next section for details

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10 Technical background 154 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 10.1.1 Machines created by VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically expanding file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host: each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. (See the next section for details

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 10 Technical background 165 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 10.1.1 Machines created by VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically allocated file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host: each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. (See the next section for details

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10 Technical background 154 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 10.1.1 Machines created by VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically expanding file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host: each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. (See the next section for details

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 10 Technical Background 262 10.1 Where Oracle VM VirtualBox Stores its Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 10.1.1 Machines Created by Oracle VM VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically allocated file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host. Each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. See chapter 1.11.2, Snapshot

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 10 Technical Background 263 10.1 Where Oracle VM VirtualBox Stores its Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 10.1.1 Machines Created by Oracle VM VirtualBox types of image files: • A dynamically allocated file will only grow in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk. It will therefore initially be small on the host hard drive and only of snapshots you can take. The only practical limitation is disk space on your host. Each snapshot stores the state of the virtual machine and thus occupies some disk space. See chapter 1.11.2, Snapshot