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 laptop I’m using (don’t know if it is host disk performance issues with the 140GB total size over … Read more
How can I mount a VHD (created in VirtualBox) of a Ubuntu Server install on my Max OSX (Mountain Lion) and allow it to be found in Finder (so I can select a folder and view it’s contents). If it requires me to purchase something, I am fine with that. Otherwise free is preferred. Thanks! … Read more
I need to unmount a VHD with a batch script in Windows 10. The only solution I found online was directed at Windows 7 and involved Diskpart. Are there any other native Windows command line tools available that can do the job? Answer Since I haven’t found a way to solely rely on MS-installed command … Read more
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? Answer Why must it be graphical? qemu-img convert -f vpc -O raw something.vhd something.raw (Edit: Fixed -f vhd to -f vpc.) AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : GurdeepS , … Read more
I’m currently waiting on my shiny new system to run Windows 8 on. I have an older system that has Windows 7 installed now on which I’d like to try Windows 8 on in the meanwhile. I intend to use the enterprise edition evaluation in order to try it, and then uninstall it when I … Read more
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? Answer Adapting one of those answers, you could use VBoxManage: VBoxManage clonehd source.vhd target.vdi –format vdi If you are just looking to use the vhd in Virtualbox, you … Read more
I use Linux as my daily driver, and have just installed Windows 10 to a new physical disk in my PC for dual booting. For a while, I’ve used Windows 7 through a VirtualBox image I have mounted over iSCSI1. Now I have two different Windows environments and that’s very frustrating. I would love to … Read more
I’m trying to use Resize-VHD cmdlet, but this results in the following error: PS> Resize-VHD -Path “C:\Container.vhd” -SizeBytes 20GB Error: Resize-VHD : The term ‘Resize-VHD’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the … Read more
I have an image file (linux based image) and want to convert it to VHD so that it can be used to create hyper-V VMs. I used “qemu-img convert” to convert raw to vpc format, but vpc doesnt work for hyper-V and vhd is not supported by “qemu-img convert”. What would be the right way … Read more
Let me please explain the scenario what I went through. I have a Transcend SSD which I use to boot my PC which I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. I have two other hard disk drives (one tera byte and other is 320 GB). Yesterday I received a notification from the SSD utility … Read more
