Nice Tut mate, good work

Hi. Everything seems to work... except I have one problem. I created a VM machine, went to my backup file... and it says the VHD is too large to fit over the IDE bus. There was a "compact" option that I'm trying now, to try reduce the size... but it's taking a long time. Is there some other way to have VM's read VHD's larger than (I think it was 127 GB?)

Thanx for the help! :)

Hello Sabre, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if this option to read the VHD may work better for you. :)

System Image - Extract Files Using Disk Management

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Sabre9 said:

Hi. Everything seems to work... except I have one problem. I created a VM machine, went to my backup file... and it says the VHD is too large to fit over the IDE bus. There was a "compact" option that I'm trying now, to try reduce the size... but it's taking a long time. Is there some other way to have VM's read VHD's larger than (I think it was 127 GB?)

Thanx for the help! :)

I am really sorry to forget that piece of information from the tutorial. I am going to add it now.

So, as you noticed, Virtual PC has a 127 gig maximum size for a vhd. Compacting works, but I have tried only vhd's about 150-160 gig. Even I like Virtual PC more than VMWare or Sun VirtualBox, I use VirtualBox to handle my own system image vhd's because of their size. In the attached image you can see a virtual 7 Enterprise x64 running in VirtualBox, with an extra HD (my host system image) mounted. It is over 200 gig but still working like a dream.

You can download Sun VirtualBox here.

Kari

Brink said:

Hello Sabre, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if this option to read the VHD may work better for you. :)

System Image - Extract Files Using Disk Management

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Yep. Simple, and didn't have to download anything. But I did have a question about it (so I posted it on that thread to not hijack). Thanks again! :)

Kari said:

Sabre9 said:

Hi. Everything seems to work... except I have one problem. I created a VM machine, went to my backup file... and it says the VHD is too large to fit over the IDE bus. There was a "compact" option that I'm trying now, to try reduce the size... but it's taking a long time. Is there some other way to have VM's read VHD's larger than (I think it was 127 GB?)

Thanx for the help! :)

I am really sorry to forget that piece of information from the tutorial. I am going to add it now.

So, as you noticed, Virtual PC has a 127 gig maximum size for a vhd. Compacting works, but I have tried only vhd's about 150-160 gig. Even I like Virtual PC more than VMWare or Sun VirtualBox, I use VirtualBox to handle my own system image vhd's because of their size. In the attached image you can see a virtual 7 Enterprise x64 running in VirtualBox, with an extra HD (my host system image) mounted. It is over 200 gig but still working like a dream.

You can download Sun VirtualBox here.

Kari

Thanks for the quick reply. I saw Shawn's post too, so I tried it, and it worked. All I would ever want is to read individual files from a system image backup, so it's good enough for me. But your tutorial is good too - I now have the ability to create VM's on my box, if I ever need to. :)

The main thing is you found a working solution. Using disk management is a very good method and the vhd's size is not limited.

Thank you for telling me about the missing piece of information in the tutorial. It is now added.

Kari