• Brien encountered a permissions problem with Hyper-V virtual hard disks when moving them between virtual machines. The issue arose when attempting to attach a previously existing virtual hard disk ...

Chris: I created several virtual machines with pre-allocated virtual hard disk files. I did this because I had heard that performance was better. However, my system's hard drive is about out of space ...

Windows Virtual PC creates virtual disks for each guest operating system created in the application. Virtual PC stores these disks in individual virtual hard disk -- or VHD -- files. To enable Windows ...

I have been using Hyper-V since it was first released with Windows Server 2008. As far as I can remember, during that time I have never run into a situation in which a virtual machine completely ran ...

Microsoft operating system virtualization products such as Virtual Server, Virtual PC, and Hyper-V support both dynamically-expanding and fixed-size virtual hard disks (VHDs). With the ...

Windows super-sleuth Long Zheng keeps his eye on the Microsoft jobs listings and discovers some information about a potential new feature for the thus far super-secretive Windows 7 OS - native support ...

Like some competing hypervisors, vSphere allows virtual hard disks to be encrypted. One of the most important things to understand about encryption in vSphere 6.5 is that virtual disk encryption and ...

For all the capabilities that virtual machine disk files bring to the IT table, there is one issue that stands out to me that sometimes makes my life difficult - virtual hard disk format compatibility ...

Before we talk about the fixes to resolve this problem, let’s see the possible causes of this error. You will receive this error message if: There are some ...

Are you getting a virtual disk service error when trying to run DiskPart? This can be a very frustrating issue, but luckily it is easy to fix. In this article, I will ...

Which virtual disk format (fixed, dynamic or pass-through) is the right choice for your environment? We've got answers and some great maintenance tips. Choosing the right format for the right scenario ...