User`s manual
Please note that Virtual Drive creation is by Device manner not by Partition.
Which means it looks for I/O in BIOS and sends the corresponding signal to
host computer. This way, you are sending the entire hard drive (may consist of
‘X’ numbers of partitions) and emulate whatever number of partitions on host
computer. You may also emulate a DVD-Drive with the same procedure.
However, this DVD-Drive does not support Bootable function like Floppy and
CD-Rom emulation.
4.3.4 Options
Set this option to disable the mass storage emulation (and hide the virtual
drive) if no image file is currently loaded. If unset, and no file image will be
found it may happen that the host system will hang on boot due to changes in
the boot order, or the boot manager (LILO, GRUB). This case was reported for
some Windows versions (2000, XP), other OS might not be fully excluded.
This behavior depends on the BIOS version used in that machine.
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