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Physical Disks

Insomecircumstances,youmightneedtogiveyourvirtualmachinedirectaccesstoa

physicalharddriveonthehostcomputer.Aphysicaldiskdirectlyaccessesanexisting

localdiskorpartition.Youcanusephysicaldiskstorunoneormoreguestoperating

systemsfromexistingdiskpartitions.

Althoughvirtualdis

ksarelimi

tedto950GB,physicaldiskscanbesetuponbothIDE

andSCSIdevicesofupto2TBcapacity.Bootingfromanoperatingsystemalreadyset

uponanexistingSCSIdiskorpartitioniscurrentlynotsupported.

Youcanalsocreateanewvirtualmachinethatusesaphysicaldis

See“UsingPhysical

DisksinaVirtualMachine”onpage 244.Inmostcases,however,itisbettertousea

virtualdisk.Ifyouuseaphysicaldisk,the.vmdkfilestoresinformationaboutthe

physicaldiskorpartitionthatthevirtualmachineuses.

Afteryouconfigureavirtualmac

hinetouseoneormorepartitionsonaphysicaldisk,

donotmodifythepartitiontablesbyrunningfdiskorasimilarutilityintheguest

operatingsystem.

Ifyouusefdiskorasimilarutilityonthehostoperatingsystemtomodifythepartition

tableofthephysicaldi

sk,youmus

tre‐createthevirtualmachine’sphysicaldisk.All

filesthatwereonthephysicaldiskarelostwhenyoumodifythepartitiontable.

Virtual Disk Maintenance Tasks

Defragmentingvirtualdiskscanimproveperformance.Compactingvirtualdisks

reclaimsanyunusedspace.Expandingvirtualdisksaddsstoragespacetoyourvirtual

machine.

CAUTIONDonotattemptphysicaldiskconfigurationsunlessyouareanexpertuser.

CAUTIONRunninganoperatingsystemnativelyonthehostcomputerandswitching

torunningitinsideavirtualmachineislikepullingtheharddriveoutofonecomputer

andinstallingitinasecondcomputerwithadifferentmotherboardandhardware.The

stepsyoutakedependontheoperatingsystemyouwa

nttouseinsidethevirtual

machine.SeetheVMwaretechnicalnoteDual‐BootComputersandVirtualMachineson

theVMwareWebsite.

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