Prev: Cannot get video past 16 bit in XP
Next: Using SoftIce in VM
From: chillfire on 12 Apr 2010 18:00
I know its an old post but I find having a 2nd virtual drive does the trick
(and should be a better way of managing server builds anyway) all the OS
stuff is kept on the 16Gb drive and the 2nd drive is where I keep data, just
means I can restore the main 'C' drive without having to recreate/backup the
websites or SQL databases I run on the VM's also the same 2nd drive can be
used across multiple VM's - NOTE only one VM can access a VHD at anyone time..

cheers,
craig

"Mark Rae [MVP]" wrote:

> "d d" <go_on_try_and_sp(a)m_me.com> wrote in message
> news:uXL7aoAeKHA.2184(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
> > I guess I'm forced to convert it to a fixed size and hope that when doing
> > that, I get to change the size.
>
> As Bob has explained, you won't be able to do that.
>
> I tend to favour Bob's first suggestion in cases like this.
>
> I've never had a problem with VMToolkit, and I use Partition Magic to
> increase the partition size.
>
> It can be a bit scary at first to boot the VM from a captured floppy disk
> and then to non-destructively increase the active partition on the VHD, but
> it really does work!
>
> I recently did something similar for a client who wanted to upgrade the
> fixed disk in his PC to a much larger one. Took about 15 minutes to create
> an image of the old HD with Acronis, then about two minutes to swap the
> physical drives over, and then about 10 minutes to restore the image onto
> the new HD, and then about another two minutes to expand the restored
> image's partition to fill the whole of the new drive.
>
> "Wow! It must have taken you hours to reinstall Windows and all my
> applications, and you've even kept my desktop exactly as it was..."
>
> At moments like that, all you can do is smile sweetly and raise the
> invoice... ;-)
>
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net
>
> .
>
 | 
Pages: 1
Prev: Cannot get video past 16 bit in XP
Next: Using SoftIce in VM