Comments below, in-line: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:12 AM, John A. Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. There are several occasions when I would be using a VM with an ISO image > as if I were simply booting into the image and running the OS entirely in RAM.
Yes, as in a Linux "LiveCD" >These OS can of course have different environments, but one thing they all do >not have by default is a need for a disk. Therefore, given this scenario, it >would seem to me that I could save unnecessary use of disk space by not >creating a disk for these machines. Yes, but I never tried that. But I see no reason why it wouldn´t work. > I can see that, during the > creation of every VM, I am given an option not to add a virtual hard drive. I > suppose I can dispense with the hard drive entirely in these cases Yes... > On the other hand, even if I need to have a shared folder or if I want to use > a disk for swap space, I could still get by with minimal space requirements. Yes > Is that not so? Thanks. Why do you ask with the negative? Forces me to answer in negative as well: NO that is NOT "not so". ;) -which means yes, ;-) ...everything you said above is AFAIK is possible. Although I have not tried it... My rationale for this conclusion is that basically when you first install an OS into a VM it has an ´un-initialized´ (unpartitioned) hard drive, yet the os boots (in RAM) and begins its install process.... so it has no accessible disk until it partitions and formats it... yet the VM works nonetheless... FC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
