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Chapter 11 Using Disks and Disk Drives

Prerequisites for Using a Physical Disk

BeforeyouruntheNewVirtualMachinewizardorusethevirtualmachinesettings

editortoaddaphysical(raw)disk,performthefollowingtasks:

 Becausethevirtualmachineandguestoperatingsystemaccessaphysicaldisk

partitionwhilethehostcontinuestorunitsoperatingsystem,verifythatthe

partitionisnotmountedbythehostorinusebyanothervirtualmachine.

Corruptionispossibleifyouallowthevirtualmachinetomodifyapartitionth

at

issimu

ltaneouslymountedonthehostoperatingsystem.

 Checktheguestoperatingsystemdocumentationregardingthetypeofpartition

onwhichtheoperatingsystemcanbeinstalled.

 OnWindowsVistaandWindows7hosts,youcannotusethesystempartition

orthephysicaldiskthatcontainsitinavirtualmachine.

 DOS,Windows95,andWindows98operatingsystemsmustbeinstalledon

thefirstprimarypartition.

 Otheroperatingsystems,suchasLinux,canbeinstalledonaprimaryoran

extendedpartitiononanypartofthedrive.

 Makesurethephysicalpartitionordiskdoesnothavedatayouneedinthefuture.

Ifitdoes,backupthedata.

 OnWindowshosts:

 IfyouuseaWindowshost’sIDEdiskinaphysicaldiskconfiguration,make

sureitisnotconfiguredastheslaveonthesecondaryIDEchannelifthe

masteronthatchannelisaCD‐ROMdrive.

 IfyourhostisrunningWindowsXPorWindowsServer2003,donotusea

dynamicdiskasaphysicaldiskinavirtualmachine.Usethedisk

managementtooltocheckthedisktypeandchangeadynamicdisktoabasic

disk,whichdestroysalldata.See“ChangeaWi

ndowsDiskTyp

efrom

DynamictoBasic”onpage 246.

 OnLinuxhosts,setthedevicegroupmembershipordeviceownership

appropriately.See“SetPermissionsonLinuxHosts”onpage 247.

Afteryoudeterminethatthephysicaldiskmeetstheseprerequisites,useeitherofthe

followingstrategiestousethephysicaldiskinavirtualmachine:

 “CreateaVirtualMachineThatUsesaPhysicalDisk”onpage 247

 “A dd aPhysicalDisktoanExistingVirtualMachine”onpage 249

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