Free physical to virtual tool Disk2vhd
Monday, November 16th, 2009Till now, if you wanted to convert your host operating system to virtual one, you had to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). It is great product, but it costs some money. But thanks to guys from Sysinternals, now you can create VHD file from your host operating system for free. They have [...]
Free Windows 7 VHD
Monday, October 19th, 2009Running virtual machine is great way to test new operating system. Although you can download free Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day trial and install it in Hyper-V virtual machine, there is even better solution: download free Windows 7 90-day evaluation VHD, attach it to Hyper-V virtual machine and avoid the need to install operating system. Free [...]
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 boot from VHD
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009One of the great new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is ability to boot the operating system from VHD file. Why? Look at this example. My colleague, Ales Rosina, Microsoft Student Partner from Slovenia recently wanted to have Windows7 as a virtual operating system inside VirtualPC, for quick access, testing… [...]

