2 Comments on “When is the page file for a Windows guest OS or the swap partition for aLinux guest OS created?”

1. Anitha says:

   January 31, 2012 at 12:53 pm

   Correct answer is B – when the Virtual machine is powered ON .

   See :

   Swap File Location
   By default, the swap file is created in the same location as the virtual machine’s configuration file.

   A swap file is created by the ESXi host when a virtual machine is powered on. If this file cannot be created, the virtual machine cannot power on. Instead of accepting the default, you can also:

   ■ Use per-virtual machine configuration options to change the datastore to another shared storage location.

   ■ Use host-local swap, which allows you to specify a datastore stored locally on the host. This allows you to swap at a per-host level, saving space on the SAN. However, it can lead to a slight degradation in performance for vSphere vMotion because pages swapped to a local swap file on the source host must be transferred across the network to the destination host.

   
   
   
   0

   
   
   
   0
2. Anitha says:

   January 31, 2012 at 1:01 pm

   Am wrong. the question is for page file creation for the GUest OS and not for the Virtual machine . My answer (B) mentioned above was for VM swap file .
   Hence the correct answer is C : When the Guest OS is installed .

   
   
   
   0

   
   
   
   0