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Virtualization Suggestion... still

Haakondahl noted issues to this in Nov. 2018; as of May 2020 the section still needs help to successfully convey meaning.

I would offer corrections were I a subject matter expert, but alas!

The section should be reviewed and modified by one who is both knowledgable of the subject and a native English speaker. My inability to understand present content might be nothing more than incorrect punctuation, but there are obviously incomplete sentences as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabrice002 (talk • contribs) 12:50, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

The first paragraph of Disk Image § Virtualization consisted of a paragraph that ceased to make any technical sense after the phrase "Virtual Machine Monitor":

• In what sense does a virtual machine monitor interpret something as a system administrator? Does the VMM add and remove users, adjust users' disk quotas, and answer questions about why the machine doesn't boot? :-)
• What are "terms of naming", and how does a VMM use them?
• What is the "specific file" that a hard disk image for a certain VMM has? The VMM I use on my machine is VMware Fusion, and a virtual machine is represented by a directory full of many different files, including several files that contain an image of the VM's hard drive (or drives - none of my VMs have multiple hard drives, but multiple hard drives are supported by Fusion).

The next paragraph said "Hard drive imaging is used in several major application areas", followed by a bullet list of two items, neither of which had anything whatsoever to do with virtualization. The first bullet item was about forensic imaging, which, I assume from the word forensic, would be either for a civil or criminal legal investigation or for investigation of some form of damage to the drive caused by hardware or software. The second bullet item purported to be about data recovery, but, after its first sentence, talked about forensic imaging.

I put a {{clarify}} template on the first paragraph, and put the two bullet items of the second paragraph into sections of their own - the lead sentence would belong in the first paragraph of Disk image § Uses if it adds anything to what's already there. I then moved the stuff about forensic imaging from the second bullet item's section into the first bullet item's section.

The old Virtualization section was originally the result of merging two articles into here::

• "Virtual disk image" was merged from this version of that page in this edit;
• "Virtual drive" was merged in this edit, but, as of the data of that image, "Virtual drive" just redirected to "Virtual disk image", so I'm not sure what happened there.

Then some other editors appear to have spent time unimproving it to the point of incomprehensibility.

This is going to involve some forensic work and repair to put back into a sensible state. Guy Harris (talk) 19:52, 2 August 2022 (UTC)