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Enabling a plain disk from a virtual machine

When a plain disk is created, it immediately consumes as much space as its allocated size. This is in contrast to a virtual disk, which consumes only as much space as needed and grows to its maximum size. Therefore, when a plain disk is created, there must be enough space in the same directory for the description files created by the Configuration Editor.

Plain disks are a disk type with the following attributes:

To add a plain disk:

  1. Open the Configuration Editor and add an IDE drive or SCSI drive.
  2. Choose Plain Disk from the "Disk Type" field.
  3. Make a selection from the "Disk Mode" field.
  4. Choose a disk file for the plain disk (ending with the .pln extension) in the 'Name' field.
  5. Click Install.
  6. Click OK.

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