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Chapter 7. Virtual Disks

Introduction

Virtual machines have many properties that are similar to physical machines. When configuring a virtual machine, the most important properties are memory and disks, because they have the most impact on the host. As with physical machines, virtual machines contain an operating system, applications, ...

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