This is a really convenient way to just "pass a hard drive around as a file" as well as a nice way to get files on and off VMs that aren't running. From the Action menu I can select "Create VHD" or "Attach VHD." Below I'd just attached a 7 GIG VHD file that thinks it's a 40 gig hard drive. Just type in "Disk Management" from your start menu. With Windows 7 I can mount VHD and use them like regular hard drives. I *could* sacrifice an extra machine, but I'd rather use the main machine I always use. I'm just not willing to install VS2010 Beta 1 on bare hardware just now, as I know I'll want to put the Next Beta on a clean machine. I'm always afraid to multi-boot, concerned that one OS will some how make one of the others angry, as they are all sharing disks. Marginal hardware integration (all major system components are virtual only depending on the virtualisation solution, SOME components might be surfaced inside the virtual machine).Non-Optimal performance (running piggyback off another Operating System, consuming resource in both).Very flexible (only takes up as much hard disk space as the solution requires).Clunky setup (different boot loaders overwriting each other, partitions cannot easily be resized or moved around).Good hardware integration (everything that is built into or attached to the machine is visible to the running OS).Good performance (runs natively on the machine, no extra abstraction layers).However, it's still a VM and it's slower than I'd like.ĭan has a great post on the pros and cons of Virtualization vs. You can see here where I've got a VM called "Dev10onVista" because I can use not just Windows XP, but also Vista. Recently, since all my machines have been updated to Windows 7 RC, I've downloaded Windows Virtual PC so I could use "Virtual XP." I've got a lot of VHD (Virtual Hard Drive Files) around now. I've used VMWare, VirtualBox, HyperV and Virtual PC.
There's always workarounds somewhere on the 'tubes, but this stuff works only in Win7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. NOTE: This is some advanced stuff and you may lose a finger.
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