-- Ben Armstrong, Virtualization Program Manager
Talking about core virtualization at Microsoft (Hyper-V, Virtual PC and Virtual Server).
Got an email the other day asking for a sample script on how to merge a differencing disk to a new file - so here we go:
1: Option Explicit
2:
3: 'Define constants
4: CONST vmDiskType_Dynamic = 0
5: CONST vmDiskType_FixedSize = 1
6: CONST vmDiskType_Differencing = 2
7:
8: dim vs, aVHD, aVHDFileName, newVHDFileName, vmTask
9:
10: 'Grab command line arguments
11: aVHDFileName = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
12: newVHDFileName = WScript.Arguments.Item(1)
13:
14: 'Connect to Virtual Server
15: Set vs = CreateObject("VirtualServer.Application")
16:
17: 'Create VHD object
18: set aVHD = vs.GetHardDisk(aVHDFileName)
19:
20: 'Merge the VHD to a new dynamic disk
21: if aVHD.type = vmDiskType_Differencing then
22: wscript.echo "Merging the VHD to a new file..."
23: set VMTask = aVHD.MergeTo(newVHDFileName, vmDiskType_Dynamic)
24: vmTask.WaitForCompletion(-1)
25: end if
As you can see, this script take two command line parameters: the differencing disk and the target disk. It then merges the differencing disk with its parent and stores the result in the new target disk.
Cheers,Ben
how does one allow for shared folders between Virtual PC 7.0.2 running DOS 6.22 with the host operating system OS X.4.8?
I've got the DOS up and running under Virtual PC, but the "Install or Update Additions" button seems to do nothing.
Any suggtions?
Thanks in advance,
Arun Chandra
arunc@evergreen.edu
Nice script Ben - now how do I get it to work on Server 2k8 R2, which complains that it can't access the ActiveX component?