Dugie just pointed this out.  There are two new trial VHDs available: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 These trials are built for Virtual Server, but can be used with Virtual PC.  Dugie is also maintaining an unofficial list of all trial virtua...

Mike Kolitz has just released "WIM2VHD".  This is a tool that allows you to take the WIM file off of a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install DVD and turn it directly into a virtual hard disk that can be used by Hyper-V, Virtual Server or Virtual PC.  Not only is this handy ...

In Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD support is now part of the platform.  This means that you do not need to enable Hyper-V to mount and manipulate virtual hard disks.  You can mount virtual hard disks directly on your Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 system in two ways.  The ...

People occasionally contact me and ask me how to fix a virtual hard disk that they have which is reporting corruption.  The short answer is: "Run data recovery tools inside the virtual machine." For the long answer we need to look at how the virtual hard disk is structured.  Reading from t...

If you have ever created a fixed-size virtual hard disk that was larger than, oh - 2GB, you probably noticed that it takes quite a while to create.  The reason why this takes so long is that when we create a new fixed-size virtual hard disk we take the time to explicitly zero-out all of the dis...

For a while now I have been eyeing off the Asus EEE PC. I liked the look of it and wanted to get one as a 'mobile email client' to use at Microsoft.  However there were two significant issues for me.  The first was that it only supports a display of 800x480 - and I wasn't sure if I could a...

Up until recently, I thought it was impossible to use BitLocker drive encryption under Virtual PC / Virtual Server (because the virtual machines do not have a TPM for BitLocker to use).  However, thanks to Pascal Sauliere, I now know how to do this.  It is a bit complicated - so let’...

Per this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941125 There is a known issue with Virtual Server and virtual machines which are configured to 'save state' when the system is shutdown - and then to automatically restart when the system is powered on. Thankfully most systems do not see this prob...