

If you are setting up a new virtual machine, in the New Virtual Machine Wizard, follow the Custom path. You must set this option at the time the virtual disk is created. Use this option if you plan to move the virtual disk to a file system that does not support files larger than 2GB. You may, as an option, configure the virtual disk to use a set of files limited to 2GB per file. On Windows hosts, each virtual disk is contained in one file by default.

vmdk extension.Ī virtual disk is made up of one or more. The disk files for a virtual disk store the information that you write to a virtual machine's hard disk the operating system, the program files and the data files. You may want to choose a file other than the one created by the New Virtual Machine Wizard if you are using a virtual disk that you created in a different location or if you are moving the automatically created disk files to a new location. See What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine? for a comprehensive list of the other files. In the virtual machine settings editor ( VM > Settings), you can choose the disk files for a virtual machine.
