Some of you seem confused about how Windows 7 goes about supporting .VHD files as used by Virtual PC, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Here's a quick how-to work with .VHD files in Windows 7. OK, ...

Windows Virtual PC creates virtual disks for each guest operating system created in the application. Virtual PC stores these disks in individual virtual hard disk -- or VHD -- files. To enable Windows ...

The new OS will let users open and view the contents of ISO and VHD files, tasks that previously required third-party utilities. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former ...

I have a question that has been lingering in my mind.<BR><BR>I've been thinking of the "wonders of virtualization" and am rather convinced that within the next few years I will likely be using it in ...

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 introduce a new virtual hard disk file format, VHDX, which is an upgrade from the current VHD format and provides for superior performance, reliability and several ...

If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

Windows 7/Windows Server 2008: If you're a fan of the virtual hard drive system available in newer versions of Windows but you're not a fan of digging in the control panel for clunky mounting and ...

We've looked at quite a bit so far -- scalability improvements, NUMA, VM monitoring and replication, to name a few -- in the first six parts of this series. Let's turn our attention to a hot topic and ...

I'm contemplating moving from Windows Vista to Windows 7 (and from 32-bit to 64-bit, since I have 12 GB memory). <BR><BR>The best way seems to be to try and create a VHD of the Vista install, and then ...