Workstation User’s Manual
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11 (Optional)Tospecifyadevicenodeforthevirtualdiskorexcludedisksfrom
snapshots,dothefollowing:
aOntheSpecifyDiskFilepage,clickAdvanced.
bTochangethedevicenode,selectfromtheVirtualdevicenodelist.
cToexcludedisksfromsnapshots,selectIndependentforthemodeandchoose
oneofthefoll
owingoption
s:
Persistent–Disksinpersistentmodebehave likeconventionaldisksona
physicalcomputer.Alldatawrittentoadiskinpersistentmodeiswritten
permanentlytothedisk.
Nonpersistent–Changestodisksinnonpersistentmodearediscardedwhen
youpowerofforresetthevirtualmachine.Nonpersistentmodeenablesyou
torestartthevirtualmachinewithavirtualdiskinthesamestateeverytime.
Changestothediskarewrittentoandreadfromaredologf
ilethatisdeleted
whenyoupowerofforresetthevirtualmachine.
See“InformationCapturedbySnapshots”onpage 205.
12 ClickFinish.
13 Usetheguestoperatingsystem’stoolstoformatanypartitionsonthephysicaldisk
thatarenotformattedforyourguestoperatingsystem.
Adding DVD/CD-ROM and Floppy Drives to a Virtual
Machine
Workstation7.0virtualmachinescanuseupto4IDEdevicesandupto60SCSIdevices.
AnyofthesedevicescanbeavirtualorphysicalharddiskorDVDorCD‐ROMdrive.
Bydefault,floppydriveisnotconnectedwhenthevirtualmachinepowerson.
Avirtualmachinecanreaddatafr
omaDV
Ddisc.Workstationdoesnotsupport
playingDVDmoviesinavirtualmachine.Youmightbeabletoplayamovieifyouuse
aDVDplayerapplicationthatdoesnotrequirevideooverlaysupportinthevideocard.
Add DVD or CD Drives to a Virtual Machine
YoucanaddoneormoreDVDorCDdrivestoyourvirtualmachine.Youcanconnect
thevirtualDVDorCDdrivetoaphysicaldriveonthehostmachineortoanISOimage
file.
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