In Windows 7, I set up another Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox. It worked great. Then, I needed to increase the vhd HD size. So, I used VBoxManage utility to do that with the following comment: VBoxManage modifyhd “c:\VMs\Win7.vhd” –resize 30000 Then, I tried to run the VM again but it cannot be booted and … Read more
I had windows 10 laptop, I used disk2VHD to convert disk into VHD. Now I am trying to mount it to virtual box on another machine, but it seems be not booting. I used windows 10 ISO and through CMD I think non of my partition has property bootdisk = yes. Please guide, how can … Read more
I have just took a back up of my windows PC, in the backup folder I can see a VHD file, I thought to run this with VirtualBox, but I the boot failure message. I suspect there is not boot information in the partition, if this is correct is there anyway to boot this file … Read more
I’ve seen a lot of guides on how to do physical -> VHD, but is there any way to easily move a VHD image to a physical disk easily? Or should I just attach the disk and go to town with GNU DD? Answer The dd approach works, but only if the destination physical disk … Read more
Is there some way to boot a Linux system from a VHD in Windows 7? If there is a way, how do I put it there in the first place? EDIT: To clarify, I’m not trying to run Linux in a VM. I’m trying to boot it in my physical machine, from a VHD, as … Read more
Is there a way to convert a VDI HDD to a VHD? Answer The best way is to use VBoxmanage as explained by Derek P. If you have an old VirtualBox, either upgrade, or: You convert VDI to VMDK, then convert VMDK to VHD in one of several ways: VMWare VCenter Converter Standalone Client vmToolkits … Read more
Once more, I have to resort at the experts here at SuperUser, as my other sources (mainly Google ;-)) didn’t prove very helpful… So basically, I would like to create a VHD image of a physical disk to be archived/accessed/maybe even mounted in a virtual machine. Now, there are dozens of articles and tutorials on … Read more
I made an image with disk2vhd and unfortunately I chose VHDX instead of VHD. I didn’t see any information about what to choose. Anyway, now that file is all I have, the original PC is trashed. So I need to know how to run it as a Virtual Machine in Windows 7. VirtualBox doesn’t have … Read more
