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Before creating a Guest, you need a volume to store its image. With a single node, the easiest way is to create an external volume that maps to a local directory in your Host. Right-click on the "Image Storages" item of the tree view and select the "New Image Storage" command. A new wizard will appear. Just follow the instructions to create an Image Storage named MyImageStorage on your one Host.

 

Next, right-click on the newly created Image Storage in the tree view and select the "New External Volume" command. Follow the wizard's instructions to create an External Volume named MyExternalVolume that points to /home/images.

 

In the end, you should see something like this in the tree view:

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Media Storages are repositories of ISO image files. These files can be mounted as disks by Guests and are useful for the initial installation of the OS. At the end of the Getting Started guide , you activated the local CIFS server, so you should already have a Media Storage called cifs. Copy some installation ISOs there in order to install a new Guest later. Click on it, and information about it will be displayed in the details view: 

As usual, a table with basic information is shown on the left, and the list of files the Media Storage contains is shown on the right. The file list displays all kind of files, but only two of them are useful for flexVDI:

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