Fwd: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

[Wally Lepore <wallylepore@gmail.com>]

In regards to creating the new Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, can
anyone recommend the advantages of creating a "virtual hard drive"
verses a "large image file on your “real” hard disk"?

Reading the VirtualBox set-up and user manual find it very
informative. The user manual said,

-Begin-

"There are many and potentially complicated ways in which VirtualBox
can provide hard disk space to a VM (see chapter 5, Virtual storage,
page 79 for details),but the most common way is to use a large image
file on your “real” hard disk, whose contents VirtualBox presents to
your VM as if it were a complete hard disk. This file represents an
entire hard disk then, so you can even copy it to another host and use
it with another VirtualBox installation."

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Curious what opinions or suggestions other "Virtual Machine" users can
share on this topic please.

Thank you kindly