Differencing Disk walkthrough under Virtual PC

re: Differencing Disk walkthrough under Virtual PC

Fraser Dickson — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:30:57 GMT

I recently started using differencing disks in VPC 2004 myself.

This article will be very useful in istructing my collegues how to do the same with their Virtual Machines!

Thanks very much!

re: Differencing Disk walkthrough under Virtual PC

Matt — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:29:22 GMT

Thanks for the tip... I've updated the artice :)

re: Differencing Disk walkthrough under Virtual PC

Nick — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:20:59 GMT

Differencing Disks are definitely worth checking out. I have a short write-up on this, along with instructions in a recent blog posting I did - http://addicted-to-it.blogspot.com/2005/06/virtual-pc-using-differencing-disks-to.html .

The only downside, as I see it is they're kinda of clunky to manage; I end up tagging each VHD with an ascii file explaining why the purpose of that particular VHD. VMware recently added a little wizard that adds a few features, and basically helps you to keep track of this the different images.