http://www.ofonesandzeros.com a discussion of technology and software development Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:19:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/03/04/mounting-virtual-pc-vhd-images-on-host-os/ http://www.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/03/04/mounting-virtual-pc-vhd-images-on-host-os/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:04:15 +0000 bryan http://blog.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/03/04/mounting-virtual-pc-vhd-images-on-host-os/ ]]> Found a great new trick today for mounting Virtual PC VHD files as drives within the host operating system.  In the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 installer is a utility called "VHDMount".  If you install Virtual Server you can elect to only install this utility (if you do a custom install).  This will create a directory "[drive]:Program FilesMicrosoft Virtual ServerVHDMount" within it is a file called VHDMount.exe.  This is a command-line utility that you can use to mount your VHD files.  I regularly use a VHD drive that I share with multiple VPC’s that has common development utilities, and being able to populate that drive without having to boot up one of the VPC’s as a big plus.

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