I recently had to work with Hyper-V for setting up an environment for hosting Virtual Machines. I have been a long-time user of VMWare products (VMWare Workstation, Player and vSphere) so I was relatively unfamiliar with Hyper-V.
In fact, the last time I worked with Microsoft virtualization was when they had just released Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server!
Fortunately, even being unfamiliar with the product, I was able to ramp up and figure out how to set up a VM in just a few minutes.
However, one of the perplexing aspects of Hyper-V was the use of VHD files. I could mount multiple VHD disks, but I could not get the boot CD to recognize the VHD disks at all.
Well, I discovered that I could mount and unmount VHD files like I can mount VMDK files in VMWare. However, the mounting of VHD files could occur directly through the Disk Management Console!
After looking over this article: http://www.7tutorials.com/disk-management-how-mount-and-unmount-vhd-images, I was able to mount my VHD files and format them.
I also found these PowerShell commands to mount and unmount the VHD files:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848551.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848562.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Once I had formatted the VHD files, I detached the VHD files and booted up my Hyper-V virtual machine once more.
As expected, I could now see the VHD Disks in my virtual machine using my boot CD!
In fact, the last time I worked with Microsoft virtualization was when they had just released Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server!
Fortunately, even being unfamiliar with the product, I was able to ramp up and figure out how to set up a VM in just a few minutes.
However, one of the perplexing aspects of Hyper-V was the use of VHD files. I could mount multiple VHD disks, but I could not get the boot CD to recognize the VHD disks at all.
Well, I discovered that I could mount and unmount VHD files like I can mount VMDK files in VMWare. However, the mounting of VHD files could occur directly through the Disk Management Console!
After looking over this article: http://www.7tutorials.com/disk-management-how-mount-and-unmount-vhd-images, I was able to mount my VHD files and format them.
I also found these PowerShell commands to mount and unmount the VHD files:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848551.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848562.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Once I had formatted the VHD files, I detached the VHD files and booted up my Hyper-V virtual machine once more.
As expected, I could now see the VHD Disks in my virtual machine using my boot CD!
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