Recently the “Ask the Core Team” blog did a great post about compacting a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012. You should check out their full post for the details, but the summary is that you now need to manually...

Today if you want to compact a virtual hard disk – you can use Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V or Windows 7. But not all methods are the same. Under the covers there are two different approaches that are taken to compacting virtual hard disks: Virtual...

Mike Kolitz has just released "WIM2VHD". This is a tool that allows you to take the WIM file off of a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install DVD and turn it directly into a virtual hard disk that can be used by Hyper-V, Virtual Server or Virtual...

One of the most frequent questions I see on forums and newsgroups that deal with virtualization is the age-old question of "I have used all the space inside a VHD hard disk. How do I expand the virtual hard disk to make room for additional data?". Luckily...