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Physical disk partion use?

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Thomas K.H. Bittner - 30 May 2007 08:02 GMT
Has anybody experiences with the physical disk partion use under VPC2007? I
can't find any documentation about that.

Regards,
Thomas
Bo Berglund - 30 May 2007 17:21 GMT
>Has anybody experiences with the physical disk partion use under VPC2007? I
>can't find any documentation about that.

What do you mean????
"Physical disk partition"????

VPC2007 is a program you install on your host Windows system.
This program is started and when running you can create and run a
Virtual Machine, which can have one or several virtual hard disks.
The virtual machine is defined in a file named *.vmc and each virtual
hard disk in files named *.vhd.
To the host system these file are just files, nothing more. Whatever
partition they are stored on makes no difference.

So what are you actually asking/looking for?

/Bo

Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com
Steve Jain - 31 May 2007 06:22 GMT
>>Has anybody experiences with the physical disk partion use under VPC2007? I
>>can't find any documentation about that.
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>Bo Berglund
>bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

You can link a .VHD to a physical partition.

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
C.Joseph Drayton - 30 May 2007 18:47 GMT
> Has anybody experiences with the physical disk partion use under VPC2007? I
> can't find any documentation about that.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas

Hi Thomas,

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. On my development box, I
have the following setup;

  DISK0;DRV:G -- VM - MS-DOS
  DISK0;DRV:H -- VM - Windows 95
  DISK0;DRV:I -- VM - Windows 98
  DISK0;DRV:J -- VM - Windows ME
  DISK0;DRV:K -- VM - Windows 2000 Professional
  DISK1;DRV;Y --    - Shared drive formatted FAT32 that is
                      used by all VMs for moving data
                      between the host and VM

Technically you do not need to have separate logical
partitions. I do because I have had problems using virtual
expanding disk and them over write other files when the VM
hard disk has reached maximum capacity. This has happened
both with Windows 95 & 98 VMs. To make sure this doesn't
happen, I've made partitions for each machine and set them
to be a fixed size.

So what I have on each logical partition, is a VMC, VFD and
VHD file.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

   "A promise is nothing more than an attempt,
    to respond to an unreasonable request."
emendelson - 31 May 2007 18:22 GMT
VMware can use a physical partition as the hard disk for a virtual machine.
VPC can not do that at all.

> Has anybody experiences with the physical disk partion use under VPC2007? I
> can't find any documentation about that.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
Steve Jain - 31 May 2007 21:20 GMT
>VMware can use a physical partition as the hard disk for a virtual machine.
>VPC can not do that at all.

VPC can use a physical disk, but not a physical partition.

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
 
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