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Adding Drives to a Virtual Machine Adding Drives to a Virtual Machine
A GSX Server virtual machine can use up to four IDE devices and up to seven SCSI devices. Any of these devices can be a virtual hard disk or DVD or CD-ROM drive. A virtual machine can read data from a DVD-ROM disc. GSX Server does not support playing DVD movies in a virtual machine.
Many other SCSI devices can be connected to a virtual machine using the host operating system's generic SCSI driver. For details on connecting these devices, see Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device.
The following sections describe how to add virtual disks, physical disks, DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drives and floppy drives to virtual machines. In addition, you can connect CD-ROM and floppy drives to disk image files.
  • Adding Virtual Disks to a Virtual Machine
  • Adding Physical Disks to a Virtual Machine
  • Adding DVD-ROM or CD-ROM Drives to a Virtual Machine
  • Adding Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine

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