http://www.ofonesandzeros.com a discussion of software and technology hosted by bryan napier Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:14:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 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 Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\VHDMount" 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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