Comments on: Virtual disks revisted…

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:01:28 +0000

In reply to Krzyś. It's incredibly disappointing that Microsoft turned it into a glorified IE6 serving app. At least the old version could run games, VPC 2007 should have been a legacy type solution but I guess the MSDN folks can't have any of that!

By: Krzyś

Krzyś — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:24:59 +0000

Some 11-12 years ago (certainly after 2001 but before 2004), back when Virtual PC was not Microsoft’s but still Connectix’s, I’ve used this feature (virtual disks linked to physical ones) to run virtualised XP (with 64 MB of RAM) on top of … the exact same installation of XP (128 MB on host). Virtual-but-linked-to-physical disk was of course read-only. It worked, though slow.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:16:08 +0000

In reply to Pratt G. from what I recall hyper-v changed the format to allow disks bigger than what virtual pc allowed, and for some other changes I don't recall off the top of my head. For converting from Hyper-V I used a tool that let me do a block read of a "physical" disk, and catch it on the linux side and redirect it to a 1:1 raw hard file, while running that within the VM. As long as I shut down the services that would normally be running (SQL, IIS, etc) it worked fine.

By: Pratt G

Pratt G — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:58:30 +0000

Does this target.vhd converted file from command qemu-img convert source.img -O vpc target.vhd work on Hyper-V and xen hypervisor ??

By: Neozeed

Neozeed — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:57:09 +0000

No I do not know anything about the public availability of AT&T SYSV disks…..

By: Stucar

Stucar — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:32:24 +0000

Do you know if the virtual disk image for the AT&T SysV Unix is available is some place ?

Thanks