Turn Your Existing Computer Into Virtual Machine
Experiment is the ladder to climb at the higher and higher stage of success in the technology world.You can not give a better feedback until you have not passed through some experimental stages. Even if you are a computer user or an Web developer. Every time you have to make some experiments in your computer. But in this case your computer will be slower day by day.
To get rid from that scenario the idea of virtualization plays a great roll.Virtualization is a simple and interesting technology that allows you to run multiple Operating System on the same computer. You might also like to read how to Change Default Operating System in Windows Boot Menu.
Let’s say that you are running Windows XP on your computer but still you can run multiple Operating system like Windows Vista,Windows 7 or Mandriva Linux just like other windows application creating the virtual machine for them. Here I’ve discussed how to create a virtual drive.
How you can Create a Virtual Machine
There are many applications that create Virtual Machine.The popular applications are Windows Virtual PC, Virtual Box, VMware Workstation.but the problem with these application that every time you create a new Virtual Machine,you have to install the Operating System from its installation CD.It is time consuming and difficult also.
Are you not thinking that it would amazing if you can turn your existing Windows computer that already has your favorite application installed, into Virtual Machine?
Turn your existing Computer in Virtual Machine
The process to convert an existing computer into Virtual Machine was not simple process and it was expensive also.
But not now.There is a free and simple utility released by Microsoft to convert an existing computer in Virtual Machine.
The Microsoft engineers have released a tiny utility Disk2vhd that allows to turn your existing computer to Virtual hard drive(VHD).
How to create Virtual Hard Drive by Disk2VHD
After double clicking the exe file it will immediately show the all drives in your computer which can be converted in VHD.Select the drive you want to create a VHD file and then click on ‘Create’.Disk2vhd will start to convert your drive in VHD file even if it is used currently by any other applications.
After creation of the Virtual Hard drive you can run it in the free desktop applications like Windows Virtual Machine,Virtual Box or VMware Workstation.If you are running Windows 7 then you can mount it as a hard drive.
So the proper utilization of Disk2vhd has filled the expectation and reduced the complexity and time of virtualization.You can enjoy the benefits of virtualization with the tool Disk2vhd.
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