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What's in a Virtual Machine?

The virtual machine typically is stored on the host computer in a set of files, all of which are in a directory set aside for that particular virtual machine. In these examples, <vmname> is the name of your virtual machine. The key files are:

There may be other files as well, some of which are present only while a virtual machine is running.

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