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Speederlander
10-21-2009, 01:30 PM
I just read Win 7 ultimate and enterprise can boot from a virtual disk. That is very interesting to those of us with lots of RAM. Has anyone tried it? Full functionality available? How does it work? Can you have the OS open a pre-arranged virtual RAM drive and load the OS prior to boot so it runs at the metal level? Or is this a full virtual machine will attendant B.S.? Please, anyone with direct info or experience, chime in.
Thanks.
itznfb
10-21-2009, 01:45 PM
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440865%28WS.10%29.aspx
dengyong
10-21-2009, 01:50 PM
What are the applications and benefits of this ?
itznfb
10-21-2009, 01:52 PM
Pretty much every question you can ask is answered in the link I posted. Even more information if you look in the different sections on the left.
zanzabar
10-21-2009, 02:03 PM
What are the applications and benefits of this ?
windows need a new partition for each windows install so u can go in and install windows to a VHD then boot to it and get full 3d and audio support, so say that u need XP u can boot to your virtual xp vhd and use a game in it without cluttering things with a real xp install
dengyong
10-21-2009, 02:06 PM
windows need a new partition for each windows install so u can go in and install windows to a VHD then boot to it and get full 3d and audio support, so say that u need XP u can boot to your virtual xp vhd and use a game in it without cluttering things with a real xp install
Sounds good if you have lots of ram.
zanzabar
10-21-2009, 04:18 PM
Sounds good if you have lots of ram.
why ram, it uses like 5-30MB extra, it uses a virtual disk driver on the r2 hypervisor
Speederlander
10-21-2009, 05:08 PM
itznfb;4074423']Pretty much every question you can ask is answered in the link I posted. Even more information if you look in the different sections on the left.
edit: ah, nevermind. This doesn't appear to be what I had hoped. Bummer. :(