Specifications

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3. Select the method you want to use for configuring your virtual machine.
If you select Typical, you can specify or accept defaults only for
• The guest operating system.
• The virtual machine name and the location of the virtual machine’s files.
• The network connection type.
• The size of the virtual disk.
• Allocating all the disk space for the virtual disk at the time you create it.
• Splitting the virtual disk into 2GB files.
Select Custom if you want to
• Allocate an amount of memory different from the default.
• Choose between the LSI Logic and BusLogic types of SCSI adapters. (An ATAPI
IDE adapter is always installed.)
• Let other users access this virtual machine.
• Have the virtual machine automatically power on or off when the GSX Server
Windows host starts up or shuts down.
• Specify the user account the virtual machine uses when running.
• Use an existing virtual disk.
• Use a physical disk rather than a virtual disk (for advanced users).
• Use an IDE virtual disk for a guest operating system that would otherwise
have a SCSI virtual disk created by default and vice versa.
• Create a virtual disk as a single disk file. If the virtual disk is larger than 2GB, the
host file system must support files larger than 2GB.
• Store your virtual disk files in a particular location.
• Specify a particular virtual device node for the virtual disk.