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Splitting VHDs

There is a great post on creating "split VHDs" (a VHD that is broken into multiple files on the physical computer) with arbitrary sizes here:

http://www.wirwar.com/blog/2007/10/26/splitting-a-virtual-pc-vhd/

Be warned though - only Virtual PC supports split VHDs (Virtual Server does not).

Cheers,
Ben

Published Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:49 AM by Virtual PC Guy

Comments

# re: Splitting VHDs

This is an interesting technique and may solve my inability to backup to DVD (although, I have just started using harddrives, after all, HDs are getting to be dirt cheap nowadays and I don't have to worry about splitting).

I would be interested to learn about any performance penalties or limitations to this technique.  

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:05 AM by Xepol

# re: Splitting VHDs

It's pretty interesting, especially the possibilities with using my 80Gig IPod... Is there a way to have a "Portable" Installation of Virtual PC?  I mean, have a version of Virtual PC on my iPod, and be able to execute the VPC directly from the ipod without having to Install VPC on each computer I want to run it?

Thanks a lot!

Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:23 AM by Ypearson

# re: Splitting VHDs

Do you know any third-party programs that can edit the filesystem inside a dynamically expanding VHD or a multi-pard VHD?

Friday, November 09, 2007 4:28 AM by yksoft1
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