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10. Select whether to create an IDE or SCSI disk.
The wizard recommends the best choice based on the guest operating system
you selected. All Linux distributions you can select in the wizard use SCSI virtual
disks by default, as do Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and
Longhorn. All Windows operating systems except Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows Server 2003 and Longhorn use IDE virtual disks by default; NetWare,
FreeBSD, MS-DOS and other guests default to IDE virtual disks.
11. Specify the capacity of the virtual disk.
Enter the size of the virtual disk that you wish to create.
If you wish, select Allocate all disk space now.
Allocating all the space at the time you create the virtual disk gives somewhat
better performance, but it requires as much disk space as the size you specify for
the virtual disk.
If you do not select this option, the virtual disk’s files start small and grow as
needed, but they can never grow larger than the size you set here.
You can set a size between 0.1GB and 256GB for a SCSI virtual disk or 128GB for
an IDE virtual disk. The default is 4GB.