What drive is formatted when installing Ubuntu in VirtualBox?

Question

virtual box

virtual box. When installing Ubuntu, the installer asks to format the drive in order to install the OS, but I don't know which drive will be formatted (I have a virtual drive).

Answer 1

Virtual same.
Physical cutting is a non-trivial task.

Answer 2

Which one is specified in the settings of the virtual machine, as a rule - virtual :)

Answer 3

I recommend you to read about virtualization in principle. In short: a virtual machine is two files (actually more, but let's simplify for the main point), config - which describes the VM resources (CPU, RAM, disk path, various adapters and controllers) and, in fact, the disk file - VMware it will be .vmdk, Hyper-V .vhd / .vhdx, KVM has something else - it's just a file inside which is binary data