だが、VHD形式の歴史はかなり古い。 そもそもVHDとは、Virtual Hard Disk (仮想ハードディスク)の略称であり、多くのユーティリティツールをリリースしてきた米Conectix社の仮想マシンソフト「Virtual PC」用仮想HDDファイルとして開発されたものだ (ちなみに同社は自社製品をMicrosoftに売却済み)。

こんにちは、阿久津です。遂にWindows 8(開発コード名)の開発プレビュー版が公開されましたね。筆者もWindows 8をいじり倒して遊んでいる最中ですが、さすがにすべての機能が実装されていないバージョンを実機に入れる訳にはいかず、VMware Workstation 8に ...

CD/DVDからイメージファイルを作成する機能も搭載 「Gizmo Central」の一機能として動作する「Gizmo Drive」v2.6.4 「Gizmo Drive」は ...

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing about some of my favorite features in the recently released Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1. This week, I'll start with VHD Mount. VHD ...

My googlefu has failed me. We have a USB key that we need to use to print cheques, as it contains data to allow the checking printing software to print. The user's environment has been virtualized to ...

Windows 7/Windows Server 2008: If you're a fan of the virtual hard drive system available in newer versions of Windows but you're not a fan of digging in the control panel for clunky mounting and ...

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 ...

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I have a question that has been lingering in my mind.<BR><BR>I've been thinking of the "wonders of virtualization" and am rather convinced that within the next few years I will likely be using it in ...