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I'm building a server for a client who was previously running on an old dell optiplex XP Machine that was used for data/database storage. These are all legacy apps that won't run on modern operating systems so I wanted to create a VHD via disk2vhd. So I ran the software hoping to take the image back to my place for testing but I forgot to tick that little "prepare for virtual PC box." No surprise that the image doesn't boot in VirtualBox.

  1. Is checking that box neccesary in order to run inside a VM and...

  2. Is there any other way to test this virtual hard disk or perhaps convert it to a VM compatible image?

Franck Dernoncourt
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According to the command-line help, this option tells Disk2vhd to install a HAL driver compatible with Virtual PC, if the OS (WinXP/Server 2003) does not support it by default.

-h Fix up the HAL in the VHD to be compatible with Virtual PC (Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 only).

(Note that it specifically refers to Microsoft Virtual PC, not Oracle VirtualBox nor any other virtualization software! It is not needed for Hyper-V, either.)

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