virtual machine question

[Geekazoid]

if I make a virtual machine say using VMware or any other virtual machine software when I set the hard drive space for my virtual machine does it create a physical partition on my C drive??? or is it just space allocation??? within a virtual environment and don't affect your physical partitions??

The reason I ask this is because I have Intel Rapid Storage software running on my C drive and I don't want it to be physically partitioned as this could mess up my intel storage...

many thanks

 

[Geekazoid]

Cheers fellas for the info much appreciated... I needed a virtual machine for how to videos I make but I wanted to install things/ software without messing around with same software on my machine already installed and properly set up... Needed a mess around Windows environment...