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Accessing physical disk from a guest
  1. #1


    dumbthumbs Guest

    Accessing physical disk from a guest

    Hi all

    I am new to Hyper-V, but have a fair bit of experience in VMWare. I have a
    job to do setting up a Hyper-V for a client (person) and I want to know if I
    can create a VM using a virtual disk for OS, but connect directly to an
    existing NTFS partition for the data. This can be done in VMWare, but I have
    been told by hearsay, that this can't be done in Hyper-V. Can someone please
    tell me the facts on this?

    Thank you.



    Regards

    Mark Dutton
    Datamerge

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  2. #2


    Bill Grant Guest

    Re: Accessing physical disk from a guest



    "dumbthumbs" <dumbthumbs@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:C9E48BC8-A7D4-49E5-A581-2E44D91F6F6A@xxxxxx

    > Hi all
    >
    > I am new to Hyper-V, but have a fair bit of experience in VMWare. I have a
    > job to do setting up a Hyper-V for a client (person) and I want to know if
    > I
    > can create a VM using a virtual disk for OS, but connect directly to an
    > existing NTFS partition for the data. This can be done in VMWare, but I
    > have
    > been told by hearsay, that this can't be done in Hyper-V. Can someone
    > please
    > tell me the facts on this?
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Mark Dutton
    > Datamerge
    http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/arc...n-hyper-v.aspx




      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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