Selecting the Virtual Hard Disk Type for a Virtual Machine

If you instruct the New Virtual Machine wizard to create a new virtual disk during a custom configuration, the wizard prompts you to select the virtual hard disk type for the virtual machine.

You can set up a virtual disk as an IDE disk for any guest operating system. You can set up a virtual disk as a SCSI disk for any guest operating system that has a driver for the LSI Logic or BusLogic SCSI controller available in the virtual machine. You can set up a virtual disk as a SATA disk for some guest operating systems. You can set up a virtual disk as an NVMe disk for guest operating systems that support the NVMe disk type.

You can change virtual disk node and mode settings after a virtual machine is created.