yeshuas wrote:

never mind I'll keep checking Ok how about this http://agramont.net/blogs/conrad/archive/2007/01/04/Copy_2F00_Increase-a-VHD-using-VHDMount.aspx

Bleh... that's not it either.

Ok, I think this is as simple as I can make it:

TV-VCR wrote:

Thank you! But that's only half of the equasion. How do I make a .vhd image of an existing hard drive? You know, clone D:?

Okay, you need to use the adminstration website of Virtual Server to create a virtual hard disk linked to a physical drive. You'll need to store the .vhd image on a different drive to the one you're linking the image to. The procedure on how to do this can be found here.

MS Technet wrote:

1.Open the Administration Website. 2.In the navigation pane, under Virtual Disks, point to Create, and then click Linked Virtual Hard Disk. 3.In Location, select the folder in which to store the virtual hard disk file. If the folder you want does not appear in the list, you must type the fully qualified path to the folder in the following step. 4.In Virtual hard disk file name, after the path to the folder, type a name for the virtual hard disk that you want to create. You do not need to include a file name extension. 5.In Physical computer drive, select the physical hard disk to which you want to link this virtual hard disk, and then click Create.

Once that's done you need to get Virtual Server to copy all the data from the physical drive to the virtual one. Details about how to do that are found here.

MS Technet wrote:

Convert the linked disk to a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk. You use this procedure to copy the contents from the physical disk to the virtual hard disk by performing a conversion. When you perform this procedure, make the following selections: • Start the conversion process by inspecting the disk. When you select a disk to inspect, select the linked virtual hard disk you created in the first procedure, such as C:\TempDrive.vhd. • When you specify name and location for the converted virtual hard disk, make sure that you specify a location on a separate physical disk from the one you want to copy. Virtual Server creates a virtual hard disk that contains a copy of the physical disk's data.

I knew that wasn't exactly what you were talking about, just hoped that something in the article would maybe jog your memory as to how you did it before. There was also a link where he was talking about using windows automated installation kit, and I thought there may have been some help there.

I'm not stupid, I realize what you are trying to do, clone your harddrive to a .vhd

Absolute-Zero wrote:

TV-VCR wrote: Thank you! But that's only half of the equasion. How do I make a .vhd image of an existing hard drive? You know, clone D:? Okay, you need to use the adminstration website of Virtual Server to create a virtual hard disk linked to a physical drive. You'll need to store the .vhd image on a different drive to the one you're linking the image to. The procedure on how to do this can be found here. MS Technet wrote: 1.Open the Administration Website. 2.In the navigation pane, under Virtual Disks, point to Create, and then click Linked Virtual Hard Disk. 3.In Location, select the folder in which to store the virtual hard disk file. If the folder you want does not appear in the list, you must type the fully qualified path to the folder in the following step. 4.In Virtual hard disk file name, after the path to the folder, type a name for the virtual hard disk that you want to create. You do not need to include a file name extension. 5.In Physical computer drive, select the physical hard disk to which you want to link this virtual hard disk, and then click Create. Once that's done you need to get Virtual Server to copy all the data from the physical drive to the virtual one. Details about how to do that are found here. MS Technet wrote: Convert the linked disk to a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk. You use this procedure to copy the contents from the physical disk to the virtual hard disk by performing a conversion. When you perform this procedure, make the following selections: • Start the conversion process by inspecting the disk. When you select a disk to inspect, select the linked virtual hard disk you created in the first procedure, such as C:\TempDrive.vhd. • When you specify name and location for the converted virtual hard disk, make sure that you specify a location on a separate physical disk from the one you want to copy. Virtual Server creates a virtual hard disk that contains a copy of the physical disk's data.

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for, but neither Firefox or Internet Explorer will connect to http://FQDN:1024/VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe.

Edit:

yeshuas wrote:

I knew that wasn't exactly what you were talking about, just hoped that something in the article would maybe jog your memory as to how you did it before. There was also a link where he was talking about using windows automated installation kit, and I thought there may have been some help there. I'm not stupid, I realize what you are trying to do, clone your harddrive to a .vhd

I never said that you were stupid or anything. Sorry if I made it souns like that though.

Unfortunately, this was quite a while ago. I read the article and the thing about the installation kit, and I'm still trying to get to the admin page.

I'm guessing you're replacing "FQDN" in the example above with the name of the machine you're trying to connect to? FQDN just stands for Fully Qualified Domain Name (www.pronetworks.org, for example).

If Virtual Server is running on the machine you're actually using, you could always try connecting via http://127.0.0.1:1024/VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe

If that doesn't work, make sure all the Virtual Server services are started and, as a last resort, run the installation executable again. It should detect that VS2005 is already installed and prompt you to either Modify, Repair or Remove the installation. Choosing Repair should copy back all the required services, files and libraries and restore VS2005 back to it's default state.

i am gonna download and test this.. find a solution if possible for you.. unless someone posts it sooner... should be about 15 minutes or so before i find it..

edit: are you on VS2005 32bit or 64bit?

okay.... well if i install IIS and VS 2005 i no longer have an internet connection, also i can login to the server however none of the links work.

c0ldfyr3 wrote:

okay.... well if i install IIS and VS 2005 i no longer have an internet connection, also i can login to the server however none of the links work.

Did you add any roles to the server, configure the networking?

this would be the second time i have installed VS 2005 and each time i cant get it to work properly, even after reading the guides MS offers, and other various offers online.

It is a virtual server that needs a host OS, am I correct so far?

Which OS's will work, will it work on a system running Vista?