Vista - Accessing physical disk from a guest

10-26-2008

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

10-27-2008

"dumbthumbs" <dumbthumbs@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> 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

10-26-2008	#1 (permalink)
dumbthumbs n/a posts	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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10-27-2008	#2 (permalink)
Bill Grant n/a posts	Re: Accessing physical disk from a guest "dumbthumbs" <dumbthumbs@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:C9E48BC8-A7D4-49E5-A581-2E44D91F6F6A@xxxxxx Quote: > 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 Specs

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