Preparing to Create a Virtual Machine

When you create a virtual machine, you specify or accept defaults for a few basic virtual machine settings.

• How you want to install the guest operating system.

• A name for the virtual machine and a location for the virtual machine files.

• The size of the virtual disk and whether to split the disk into multiple virtual disk files.

• Whether to customize hardware settings, including memory allocation, number of virtual processors, and network connection type.