Creating the VHD now for this tutorial, the resulting just over 50 GB VHD took about 15 minutes to be created:ģ.1) If you start the virtual machine now, you will see it can't boot:ģ.2) Open VM settings.
Disk2VHD shows you an estimated time when it thinks the VHD will be ready, in my case this has usually been quite accurate. When you now click Create, you will notice that Disk2VHD does not start to write the VHD before it has finished creating the Shadow Copy (snapshotting included drives):ġ.4) This may take some time. Creating the VHD might take quite a long time but as Disk2VHD reads the information it needs from the Shadow Copy, you can continue using your Windows as usual any changes to the system like installed software or changes to desktop will not be included in VHD because they were done after the Shadow Copy was created. Selecting Use Volume Shadow Copy will cause Disk2VHD to create a Shadow Copy of your system as it was at the very moment you clicked Create.
The virtual machine will be fully functional and contain all software, user profiles and settings which were installed and present on the real physical computer and Windows when the VHD creation process was started.Ībout the Use Volume Shadow Copy selection:ĭisk2VHD allows you to create a VHD of a system which will be currently used and online. The virtual machine will be an exact copy of the original Windows installation apart of some hardware and drivers, Hyper-V replacing some hardware with its own virtual devices.
In this tutorial we will download and install Disk2VHD on an existing Windows 10 computer, use it to create a VHD of the current Windows 10 installation on that computer and use the resulting VHD to create a virtual machine on Windows 10 Hyper-V. This VHDfile can then be used to create a virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC (Windows 7) and Hyper-V (Windows 8 and later). As the name already tells Disk2VHD is a tool to create a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file of an existing Windows system. Sysinternals is well known of their wide range of free tools to manage, troubleshoot and diagnose Windows systems and applications. Disk2VHD is a practical free tool by Sysinternals, since 2006 a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.
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