On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:32:03 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> asks me if I want to reuse one of my existing disk files. (Why would I
>>> *ever* want to do that??) And when I delete a VM, this does /not/
>>> delete the disk image files with it.
>>
>> I think you just answered your own question.
> 
> How so?
> 
> If you put the disks from one VM into another VM, then the other VM
> *becomes* the first VM. All VMs are essentially identical; the disks are
> the only thing that makes them different. Either you want to delete a
> VM, or you don't. So deleting the settings file and then still using the
> existing disks is a nonsensical thing to do.

Not if the disk is a data disk, or is used as something other than the 
boot disk.

Or if it's a base for multiple linked clones where you started from a 
common base, but the clones are different.  It's not unusual at all, for 
example, when testing networked setups of identical OSes to create a 
common base image and then customize multiple linked clones.

Jim

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