2009-02-16

VHD booting… Rocks

Categories: tech

Today I installed the Windows 7 Beta to test the VHD boot… It is so cool.

This is a screenshot of a computer dual booting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 :-)

Here is a description on how to do it.

1. Boot the machine using the Windows 7 DVD 2. Choose Windows Repair 3. start CMD 4. Run Diskpart 5. Type: Create vdisk file=c:Windows7Build7000.vhd maximum=40000 6. Type: select vdisk file=c:Windows7Build7000.vhd 7. Type: attach vdisk 8. Type: ‘exit’ 9. Install Windows 7 to the .VHD 10. Reboot

Links

http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2009/01/11/windows-7-natively-booting-from-a-vhd-virtual-pc-image-file.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/01/17/windows-7-boot-from-vhd-first-impression-part-1.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/01/18/windows-7-boot-from-vhd-first-impression-part-2.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/01/28/windows-7-boot-from-vhd-first-impression-part-3-booting-vhd-from-vista-sp1-or-later.aspx