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 ...

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 ...

On virtual hard drives, anything that could lose data on a conventional HDD or SSD can likewise do so. However, the most frequent causes of data loss on virtual hard drives or disks—whatever you want ...

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing about some of my favorite features in the recently released Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1. This week, I'll start with VHD Mount. VHD ...

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 operating system and antivirus software treat VHD and VHDX disk image downloads like a black box. Scanning the files inside these containers does not happen until the image is mounted and the ...

After reading my article "Backing Up Live Virtual Server VMs," a couple of administrators asked me if it was possible to back up individual files or folders inside a running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 ...

One of the things I have always found handy about Hyper-V is the ability to mount a non-running virtual machine's (VM's) virtual hard disk in the host operating system. This probably isn't something ...