In this post, we will see how to shrink and compact hard disks in Hyper-V. This allows you to make room for the hard disks if they are too big for your physical computer. Since Hyper-V hard disks are ...

With the massive sizes of Hyper-V VMs, it might be a good idea to put a hard cap on how large they can grow to. When you create a new virtual machine using the Hyper-V Manager, the virtual hard disk ...

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 ...

A common way to attach a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine is via the Hyper-V Manager. But, as Brien shows, you can use PowerShell instead. Recently, I have been spending some time coming up with ...

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Did you know you can make virtual disks on Windows? It’s a cool and underused feature that has been available in the OS since Windows 8. Perhaps you have seen files on your system with the VHD or VHDX ...

If you’ve ever wished that you could emulate the performance of a solid-state drive without installing a new piece of hardware, consider creating a new virtual hard drive on your PC that runs purely ...

How do you test Windows 11 for compatibility with essential apps without putting your work at risk? Simple: Use the built-in Hyper-V platform on your Windows 10 PC to create a virtual machine and ...

How to create a virtual machine for Windows 11 using VMware Workstation Player 17 Your email has been sent Windows 11 is a tricky operating system to run as a virtual machine. That’s because it has a ...