Thursday 8 October 2009

New Sysinternals Tool - Disk2vhd

A new Sysinternals tool, Disk2vhd, was released yesterday by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell.

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).

You can download Disk2vhd from the Sysinternals website. Please refer to the link mentioned at the bottom of this post.

Some screenshots of Disk2vhd

Read more from the Sysinternals site (link provided below).

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

Cheers Mark!!, once again you gave us an amazing tool.

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