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To enable or disable hot reconfigure of SATA devices, use the Disks hot reconfigure option on the Advanced tab.
SATA in VMs
SATA enables you to resize hard disks, with the same restrictions as SCSI: thin provisioned disks with no snapshots. See VMware. It also enables you to hot reconfigure disks. And you can add and remove ISO disks with hot-reconfigure.
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