I was playing with Windows Azure durable virtual machines. In the end, I deleted the virtual machine (successfully) and tried to delete the associated storage account. The request to delete the st...

I am trying to mount a Virtual Hard Drive (.VHD) using the Windows 7 API function, but I can't find the relevant function, does one exist? I am programming in C++ using Visual Studio 2010, for inf...

I just downloaded the VHD for windows xp: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11575 But when I start the virtual pc it says that "the evaluation period for this...

I have created a VHD for data and attached it to one Virtual Machine instance. Is there a way to attach that disk again to another VM? I basically want a shared drive for multiple VMs. I see an "a...

Some background: I work in a lab environment and have a number of issues that come through that require VHDs to be created and attached to VMs for stress testing. I have come up with a script that ...

Does anyone now how to create a VM from an existing VHD in the new azure portal ? I can find lots of info on how to do this in manage.windowsazure.com, but nothing on this functionality in portal...

when I run CreateVritualDisk, I get the error 87 (ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER). Presumably missing a parameter or is incorrect. The problem is with the version CREATE_VIRTUAL_DISK_VERSION_2, CREATE_VIR...

How can I attach a VHDX or VHD file in Linux? I mean attach the virtual hard disk as a block device, and use external tools to read these devices. The filesystem inside is not mountable. I ...

When adding a VHD data disk to a VM I am asked for a "Host Cache Preference" (None, Read Only, Read/write). Can someone tell me the effect of choosing one over the other? Specifically, I am using...

I think the official Azure instructions on how to capture a VM image must be either incorrect or incomplete. I've run a variety of tests myself (detailed below) and more than two dozen people...

I was wondering if anyone had any information on how to backup a vm image that has been uploaded to the cloud. There is an option to revert to the initial state. However, it would be extremely hand...

I've looked everywhere for this but can't find an answer, so: I have a VHD image created for me by a client -- he installed Win7 on a machine and then used a tool from SysInternals to create a VH...

Just wondering, has anyone tried to run OS X in a VM environment running in Windows 7? What's the performance like? Any issues in regards to development of iOS software? I have to emphasize ...

Like any other hard disk, virtual hard discs (*.vhd) will suffer from fragmentation. So to keep good performance i guess i have to defrag first the virtual hard disc from within the virtual...