Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

re: Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Henri — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:39:06 GMT

I recently had a similar problem with a Windows XP on VirtualBox. I found a utility called Migrate Easy that did the trick. I just created a larger virtual drive and migrated the data from the old one across.

re: Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Dan Goldstein — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:46:05 GMT

Another way is to mount that VHD as the second hard drive of another volume after you allocate more space. Then you can just extend the volume using the Computer Management tool.

re: Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Tom — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:47:45 GMT

Dan,

I tried that, also, but for me it complained saying it was a system disk or legacy disk or something and still wouldn't let me extend it. But that is something else that can be tried.

re: Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Tom — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:48 GMT

Henri,

That looks promising too, for anyone wanting to check it out:

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/

re: Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Jule — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:50:07 GMT

Thanks for the information. Why didn't you just create another disk with more space? Essentially, add another disk to the existing VM. I would have created a new VM with adequate space and installed the application on that disk. Just a thought.

Thanks again for the post.

re: Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Tom — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:58:55 GMT

Jule,

The reason I didn't do that is that I already had Visual Studio installed on the system disk and the Service Pack doesn't give you the option to put things on another disk. So it was looking on that drive only. And I didn't want to uninstall Visual Studio and re-install it on another drive.

re: Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Frankie — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:36:58 GMT

You can't extend the boot/system drive. I had this problem using Virtual PC and although it's a two-step process what I did worked very well for me. I used the VMWare Converter which allows you to allocate larger space in the conversion process to 'grow' the VM, then I used the Vmdk2Vhd converter to bring it back. Worked very easily.

There is in the Vmdk2Vhd utility two dll's one Vmdk.dll and one Vhd.dll, I'd love it some source or API docs were provided so that you could use those dll's to create this process without having to go to the VmwareConverter.

re: Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Frank — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:43:30 GMT

For virtual pc, since you cannot extend the boot/system disk, I use vmware converter to allocate a larger disk and migrate my vhd into it, then vmdk2vhd to bring it back. Worked very easily.

I wish documentation were available for the two dll's in vmdk2vhd because there is a vmdk.dll and a vhd.dll that one might use to create this process without the need to roundtrip through vmware.

Visual Studio Links #68

Visual Studio Hacks — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:36:31 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. The folks over at Mindscape have released a new (free) add-in for VS2008 called VS File Explorer . The add-in gives an explorer tool