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Disk Modes for Virtual Disks

There are three types of disk modes that can be enabled for raw, plain, and virtual disks:

By default, new virtual machines use an IDE disk in normal (persistent) mode for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows XP guests. The default for all other guest operating systems is a SCSI disk in normal (persistent) mode.

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