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VirtualBox? Hangs on creation of new VM from VHD with Windows 7
Does this product even work on Windows 7 (64 bit)? It says its supported, but I have tried about 5 times in a row to create my first VM with existing VHD file, and this thing just hangs @ zero percent ...
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Planning VHD-based laptop install
I am about to take delivery of a new laptop with a 750GB HDD. I will be using Win7 as the base OS (as a "real" installation, direct to the tin). The base install will probably have Visual Studio ...
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Windows 7 Unable to See VHD Backup Image on External Hard Drive
I created a VHD backup image of my C partition some time ago. I copied this VHD file to my USB external hardrive.
I can successfully attach the VHD file on my USB HDD and explore its content.
Now, ...
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Is it possible to boot Windows 8 installed to VHD from Windows 7 boot manager?
does anybody have success with booting Windows 8 Dev Preview that is installed to VHD from Windows 7 boot manager?
I have no success with that. However, I have success with booting yet another ...
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Can I use Bitlocker to encrypt a bootable vhd?
I currently have a vhd on my machine that I boot into (win 7 enterprise). I'm being told that I need to Bitlocker my 'machine' and want to know if I can run Bitlocker within the context of the VHD... ...
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Creating files in NTFS root folder
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I'm attempting (and in part succeding) in replacing a number of folders with mounted VHDs in Windows Server 2008 R2, in an attempt to emulate UNIX' bahaviour with bind- or loop-mounts. ...
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what are the advantage of VHD on Windows 7 [closed]
I have been a real ignorant about virtualization in general and nowadays I am working hard to throw this away.
I heard a lot about VHDs and it is really easy to create VHDs on Windows 7.
If we sit ...
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Using Virtual Hard Disk on Windows7 - The chain of hard disks is broken
When I tried to attach a .vhd that size is bigger than 5gb, it says The chain of virtual hard disks is broken. The system cannot locate the parent virtual hard disk for the differencing disk.
I found ...
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share Win 7 VHD
If I create a Win 7 VHD and set it up as a development environment can I distribute it to 30 devs and allow them to boot in to the VHD hence avoiding setting up 30 dev environments?
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Restore VHD image in a specific partition
I'm having a similar issue described in this post.
I have a Windows 7 VHD image and want to restore it, but I cannot let Windows Restore format the whole HD and destroy other partitions. I don't want ...
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Microsoft 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine on VirtualBox?
Since I'm looking to improve my Sharepoint knowledge, I downloaded the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1) from Microsoft
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Cannot install Windows 8 on VHD
I've been following Scott Hanselman's great article on how to install Win8 to a VHD http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToInstallingAndBootingWindows8DeveloperPreviewOffAVHDVirtualHardDisk.aspx
When I ...
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Shrink/Consolidate Partitions in a VHD Volume
I'm trying to Shrink or Consolidate Free space in a VHD Volume that has system or locked files where the standard defrag tool isn't successful.
About the VHD;
Created using Disk2VHD,
300GB ...
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Remove unallocated space on VHD
I just moved from XP to Windows 7. I wanted to virtualize my XP machine, so I copied the data to VHD and tried to boot from it. Well my drive was 149gb so I split them into 2 vhd files of their ...
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Created a VHD using dsk2vhd, no boot
I've got a complete installation of Windows 7 Ultimate and used the tool dsk2vhd to create a vhd of the instance of Windows 7 within that same instance - it seems to create it no problems (no error ...
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Copying Windows 7 host to VHD
I've installed Windows 7 Ultimate and it is set to take up the entire drive, I'm also planning on storing the VHD files on this drive. Is there a way I can convert the host Windows 7 to a VHD file ...
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I have a differencing VHD that's eating away 90+% of my HDD. How can I shrink it?
I have a differencing VHD that's eating away 90+% of my HDD. How can I shrink it?
The host OS is W7-64, the virtual is XP32.
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Server 2008 R2 blu-ray driver problem?
I'm attempting to make my win 7 laptop dual boot to a vhd where I will install server 2008 r2. Creating the vhd, booting to it, with a bootable usb drive w/ the server 2008 r2 sp1 iso, no problem. ...
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How does one test a Windows Complete PC Backup?
Is there any way to test or verify the state of a Windows Complete PC backup, short of actually restoring it to the same machine?
(At the very least, I want to be able to verify that the file system ...
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Using VHDs to test software?
I'm testing some software that I've made and I'd like to test it on vista, xp, and win 7 in a few different configurations.
Would using VHDs be a good choice for this? If so, do I have to build each ...
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How to Copy .VHD File to Physical Hard Disk Using DD Command
I have read other question/answers on this site that say this is possible, but I'm wondering how it is done. I have tried the following command, which completes successfully, but the NTFS isn't valid ...
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Can Windows boot manager remember the last booted OS as default?
Recently, I setup my Win7 notebook vhd dual-boot.
(Copied old Win7 32bit into a vhd disk, repartition and installed new 64bit Win7 into another vhd as new primary system.)
How can I configure bcd to ...
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Boot to VHD from another workstation machine
I have a windows server 2008 R2 machine which has some VHD files. I have a laptop using win 7. Can I configure my laptop to boot to a virtual on the windows server 2008 R2 server?
These machines ...
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Mouse not connected in Hyper-V
Took a VS 2005 VHD connected it to Hyper-V, uninstall Virtual Machine Additions and installed Hyper-V Integration Components. Now mouse point shows arrow rather than dot, but you cannot click anywhere ...
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How to make a Windows 7 Bootable VHD?
Is there an easy way to understand how to make a Windows 7 Bootable .VHD? The ones I've found are a little over me.
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Is it possible to install Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on a virtual disk when starting the setup by booting the installation disc?
I have been reading up on the native virtual hard disk support in Windows 7. The problem is installing Windows 7 on the virtual hard disk. Whenever I boot from the installation disc, follow the usual ...
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vista ultimate boot from vhd [closed]
Windows 7: Boot from VHD First
Impression: Part 3 (Booting VHD from
Vista SP1 or later)
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to boot Vista from vhd using Windows 7 boot manager?
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Can I install Windows 7 64-bit in a VM on a Windows 7 64-bit host?
I'm running a Windows 7 64-bit host, with Microsoft Virtual PC 64-bit installed.
With this setup, can I install Windows 7 64-bit in a virtual machine (VHD file) as a client OS?
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Which versions of Windows 7 include Drive Manager?
In an answer to a question I asked about mounting Virtual PC images, Philippe suggested using “drive manager” in Windows 7 to mount a .VHD file.
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Converting .VHD imag to RAW format
I need to convert a VHD file (Hyper-V VM) to the Linux raw format. Is there a tool which can do this which is graphical?
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Make backup image (.tib/.vhd) as my main operating system?
My old hard drive is dying so I want to move my Windows 7 operating system to another hard drive. They say cloning using Acronis would do the trick, but for some reason it refuses to work. I also ...
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Does SSD TRIM work with a 'Boot from VHD' scenario?
I have recently purchased an Intel X-25 G2 SSD (160GB) as an extra drive for my laptop.
I created a fixed size disk virtual disk (40GB) and have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 onto this VHD. I now ...
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Boot to VHD backup plan
I have a machine that I just reinstalled Windows and all of my applications onto... what a chore that is. I want to totally and completely avoid this from now on by creating an image.
My first ...
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Is there a tool to convert VHD images to VDI images?
I saw the response for converting VDI images into VHD images, but I want to do the opposite conversion - is there a tool to do this?
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Virtual PC - How to convert .nrg file to .vhd
I have a live cd of linux. named Knoppix.
I want to run it as a virtual OS on my windows. I have installed windows xp on my PC.
And I am using "Microsoft Virtual PC" for using Virtual OS.
What My ...
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windows 2008, Resize partition
Hello
I try to split my hard drive to 3 partition by Windows tools, I have 385 GB free space on C drive but when I try to shrink it , only it allows 25 GB to be shrinked.
windows report it is for ...
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Virtualbox, merging snapshots and base disk
I have a virtual machine with about 30 snapshots in branches. The current development path is 22 snapshots plus the base disk. The amount of files is seemingly having an impact now on IO and the dev ...
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Take snapshot when doing Windows 7 boot to .vhd
Here is what I would like to be able to do:
I would like to run from a .vhd.
I would like to take snapshots of that .vhd.
I would like to be able to revert back to any of the saved .vhd
snapshots.
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Making the free Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk image work with VirtualBox's simulated network card
I have a Macbook Pro at work and installed the current VirtualBox (3.2.4) today.
However, after using the free VHD image of IE 7 on XP SP3 from Microsoft, the Virtual Operating System (XP) just ...
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Using a boot to vhd file as a virtual machine
I have two boot to vhd files, one for win2k8 and one for win7 ultimate.
If I boot into the win2k8, can I start the win7 vhd as a virtual machine using the windows server 2008 hyper-v tools?
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Virtual PC lost parent disk for differential vhd
2 years ago I had that brilliant idea to create base Windows XP disk which all of my VM with XP will use.
Of course it ended that I had only one VM with XP :-).
Today I needed to make some free space ...
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Hide non VHD partitions
I have two partition on my HDD: C and D. On D: I have a vhd image (with windows 7 ultimate) that I use to boot from.
When I'm running the OS from VHD I can still access my physical parititons. Is it ...
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Moving a VM from MS Virtual Server R2 to VirtualBox
I have a Windows 2000 Professional VM happily running under MS Virtual Server R2 on WindowsXP. I need to move it to a different PC and the only one available is a Mac with VirtualBox on it.
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Dual boot between Windows 7 in VHD and Ubuntu
Is it possible to dual boot between Ubuntu and Windows 7.vhd? If anyone knows please tell me how?
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how to use vmware converter
how do I use vmware converter? I've tried to search google but I can't find any tutorial on how to use it.
I just wish to convert my xp installation to a vmware file so that I could use it on vm ...
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Windows 7 Backup Image - Mount to Virtual PC?
I took a backup of my PC a while ago, and forgot what was on the backup. I noticed it created a VHD file, but I was wondering if that was safe to run in Virtual PC without corrupting the image to ...
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Mount VHD In Ubuntu
How would one go about mount a VHD created a something like Disc2VHD in ubuntu , try the usual mount commands but cant seem to get it going
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Boot from VHD with windows7 - bcdedit trouble
I'm running Windows7 Enterprise, x64 version. I've created a windows7 vhd file with help of the following blog post hanselman blog
After that, I've added it to my boot menu with help of another blog ...
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Make vhdresizer work on XP Mode VHD files
I'm trying to shrink a Windows 7 XP Mode VHD file with VhdResizer with little success.
When I select my VHD file, it says "VhdExpand only supports fixed and dynamic VHD files". My XP Mode VHDs are ...
