Was learning VHD boot drive
 

I was trying to learn booting from VHD virtual drive with Youtube tutorials
but quit. Already know how to create virtual disk but creating multi-boot
menu and intall Os requires some Powerpoint commands which it's not easy.
Anyone knows how to do it? I guess it's better to leave things working. I
mean, a lot better to keep it the way it is. If there were simple
applications to help multi-booting from VHD, I'd give it a try. Sorry I'm
not superman.

Was learning VHD boot drive
 

Android99 wrote on 2/19/2015 2:36 PM:
I was trying to learn booting from VHD virtual drive with Youtube tutorials
but quit. Already know how to create virtual disk but creating multi-boot
menu and intall Os requires some Powerpoint commands which it's not easy.
Anyone knows how to do it? I guess it's better to leave things working. I
mean, a lot better to keep it the way it is. If there were simple
applications to help multi-booting from VHD, I'd give it a try. Sorry I'm
not superman.

IMHO you don't multi boot virtual machines. You open the machine manager and launch one.
You could have Windows 10, Linux, Windows XP. You pick one, and boot it. It runs, you use it, you close it. You
pick another, you run it, you use it, you close it.

If you have enough power, you can run them all at the same time, but I'm sure that's really off the wall.

That's how I do it. I never try to load more than one into a VHD machine.

Was learning VHD boot drive
 

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:36:32 -0000, Android99 wrote:

I was trying to learn booting from VHD virtual drive with Youtube tutorials
but quit. Already know how to create virtual disk but creating multi-boot
menu and intall Os requires some Powerpoint commands which it's not easy.
Anyone knows how to do it? I guess it's better to leave things working. I
mean, a lot better to keep it the way it is. If there were simple
applications to help multi-booting from VHD, I'd give it a try. Sorry I'm
not superman.

I don't try to boot separately. I run the virtual drive in its VM so
that both the host and client systems are running, the latter, as I
said, in its VM.

I suspect that's the only way to do it, in fact. But I'm not an
expert...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Was learning VHD boot drive
 

Big_Al wrote:
Android99 wrote on 2/19/2015 2:36 PM:
I was trying to learn booting from VHD virtual drive with Youtube tutorials
but quit. Already know how to create virtual disk but creating multi-boot
menu and intall Os requires some Powerpoint commands which it's not easy.
Anyone knows how to do it? I guess it's better to leave things working. I
mean, a lot better to keep it the way it is. If there were simple
applications to help multi-booting from VHD, I'd give it a try. Sorry I'm
not superman.

IMHO you don't multi boot virtual machines. You open the machine manager and launch one.
You could have Windows 10, Linux, Windows XP. You pick one, and boot it. It runs, you use it, you close it. You
pick another, you run it, you use it, you close it.

If you have enough power, you can run them all at the same time, but I'm sure that's really off the wall.

That's how I do it. I never try to load more than one into a VHD machine.


If you need to test a BCD multiboot, you can have more
than one OS in a VM. In the ancient VPC2007 I use, you
can have three virtual hard drives and one CD drive.
Which is enough to model an entire PC if you like.
I'm sure VirtualBox is just as capable.

And I've modeled entire multimedia streaming using
VMs. One VM as a server, one VM as a client, and so on.
You can do all your testing with just one computer,
and no Samsung TV set.

Paul

Was learning VHD boot drive
 

Paul wrote on 2/19/2015 3:29 PM:
Big_Al wrote:
Android99 wrote on 2/19/2015 2:36 PM:
I was trying to learn booting from VHD virtual drive with Youtube tutorials
but quit. Already know how to create virtual disk but creating multi-boot
menu and intall Os requires some Powerpoint commands which it's not easy.
Anyone knows how to do it? I guess it's better to leave things working. I
mean, a lot better to keep it the way it is. If there were simple
applications to help multi-booting from VHD, I'd give it a try. Sorry I'm
not superman.

IMHO you don't multi boot virtual machines. You open the machine manager and launch one.
You could have Windows 10, Linux, Windows XP. You pick one, and boot it. It runs, you use it, you close it. You
pick another, you run it, you use it, you close it.

If you have enough power, you can run them all at the same time, but I'm sure that's really off the wall.

That's how I do it. I never try to load more than one into a VHD machine.


If you need to test a BCD multiboot, you can have more
than one OS in a VM. In the ancient VPC2007 I use, you
can have three virtual hard drives and one CD drive.
Which is enough to model an entire PC if you like.
I'm sure VirtualBox is just as capable.

And I've modeled entire multimedia streaming using
VMs. One VM as a server, one VM as a client, and so on.
You can do all your testing with just one computer,
and no Samsung TV set.

Paul

Yes, I guess thinking about it, my laptop is a dual boot, Linux/Win, so why not a VM. One might want to test a real
life config. Just didn't stretch my thinking that far. Thanks for the expansion memory chip! :-)