{"id":543,"date":"2009-05-18T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/05\/18\/native-vhd-support-in-windows-7.aspx"},"modified":"2009-05-18T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:54:53","slug":"native-vhd-support-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Native VHD Support in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This blog entry describes the support in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for creating and managing Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files as a native format, and booting a physical machine from a VHD file.&#160; Native VHD support helps our enterprise customers and developer community use a common image format and common tools to manage and deploy Windows images that run either in Hyper-V virtual machines or on physical machines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk file format (VHD) is a publicly available format specification that specifies a virtual hard disk encapsulated in a single file, capable of hosting native file systems and supporting standard disk operations. VHD files are used by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Virtual PC for virtual disks connected to a virtual machine.&#160;&#160; VHDs are useful containers and the VHD file format is also used by Microsoft Data Protection Manager, Windows Server Backup as well as many other Microsoft and Non-Microsoft solutions.&#160; To create a VHD on Windows Server 2008, you install the Hyper-V Server role and use the Hyper-V Manager to create a VHD file, and then install a version of Windows onto a partition in the VHD.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/virtualization\/archive\/2009\/05\/14\/native-vhd-support-in-windows-7.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/virtualization\/archive\/2009\/05\/14\/native-vhd-support-in-windows-7.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/virtualization\/archive\/2009\/05\/14\/native-vhd-support-in-windows-7.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog entry describes the support in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for creating and managing Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files as a native format, and booting a physical machine from a VHD file.&#160; Native VHD support helps our enterprise customers and developer community use a common image format and common tools to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}