When creating a virtual machine, you are asked to select a disk type, you can either go for Fixed Disk or Dynamic Disk. What if you went for a Fixed Disk and later on realized that you need a dynamic ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

If you’re a fan of VMware, then you’re used to its familiar GUI tools. However, you may never have checked out the contents of the C:\Program Files\VMware Workstation folder after installing the ...

The folks at VMToolkit.com have recently added another invaluable tool to their repertoire. With the free VhdResizer, administrators can solve two of the most common issues involving the management of ...

Although I have abandoned most of my on-premise production servers in favor of Office 365, I do have a single file server that I use to store all of the stuff that I write, my business records and ...

If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

Did you know you can make virtual disks on Windows? It’s a cool and underused feature that has been available in the OS since Windows 8. Perhaps you have seen files on your system with the VHD or VHDX ...

Microsoft recently updated the Sysinternals Suite of applications with a new component designed to help users create a virtual hard disk (VHD) version of their physical disks. The new ...