Disk2vhd. Introduction Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).
The Disk2vhd user interface lists the volumes present on the system: It will create one VHD for each disk on which selected volumes reside. Note: Virtual PC supports a maximum virtual disk size of 127GB. Disk2vhd runs on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and higher, including x64 systems. Runs on: Gilles Vollant software. VmToolkit. Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 RC, Running on XP Home! 02/19/207 Update: Microsoft has now released the final version of Virtual PC 2007. The final released setup.exe file seems to now allow installation of VPC 2007 on XP Home versions without the "hack" noted below. See my newer post: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (Final) Released If you decide to do the hack method listed below anyway, my tests indicate you may need to manually run the MS XML 6 setup file after you run the msi installer.
---Claus (original post follows below) It has been a while since I last posted about Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007. This week Microsoft announced Release Candidate for Virtual PC 2007 (still in Beta) is now available. This normally would have brought me a measure of cheer, but seeing as Virtual PC 2007 has been updated to only now run on XP Professional and Windows 2003 server editions...that left me very bummed out. Others are bummed too...no VPC 2007 on XP Home.
What to do? How to get Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 RC to run on XP Home Notes Additional Reading and Credits. Virtual PC 2007.