Installation and configuration of virtual machine - Step 3
The next step is to create a virtual disk. In the first dialog, we will keep the item Create a virtual hard disk now selected and after clicking the Create button we will get the option to select the format in which the virtual disk will be stored:
In our sample case, we will again leave the pre-selected item checked, which is the VDI format.
In the next dialog, you can choose whether the created virtual disk will be allocated dynamically, which means that it will initially take up a small amount of space on the physical storage and if more space is needed, the space will be dynamically " allocated " - to the maximum size specified in the next step, or whether the virtual disk file will be a fixed size, which means that the space corresponding to the specified maximum size will be allocated immediately upon creation. For the demonstration, we will again keep the pre-selected option (Dynamically allocated) checked.
In the last step of creating the virtual disk, we set the maximum disk size, also considering the requirements of the hosted system, which is 15 GB in the minimum variant and 20 GB in the recommended variant.
Setting up a virtual disk.