Windows Server 2008 R2 Start trial

Native boot refers to the Windows Server 2008 R2 can install the operating system on a virtual hard disk and can start the operating system directly from this virtual hard disk! This feature is supported by Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. The native boot installs the operating system to a virtual hard disk, but the operating system still uses the hardware resources of the physical machine, which is fundamentally different from the virtual machine.

Native boot use OS deployment is unprecedented and flexible, before we deploy multiple operating systems on a single physical machine, usually by dividing multiple partitions on the hard disk and then installing a system on each partition. Native boot allows the operating system to be installed on the virtual hard disk so that it is not restricted by zoning and can be deployed in the same partition. And so the operating system migration is very flexible, as long as simply copy the virtual hard disk files to the target computer on the OK. Again, the virtual hard disk file can create a differential disk, if the use of a virtual hard disk to create multiple differential disks, which is equivalent to the rapid cloning of multiple operating systems. And the differential disk can choose to not keep the change when the shutdown, this seems to have some reduction card meaning ....

Let us give you an example to illustrate that we have prepared a computer win2008r2, installed the Windows Server 2008 R2 English official version + Chinese language Pack. There's only one partition on WIN2008R2 C, we're now going to create a virtual hard disk in WIN2008R2 's C disk, and then install Windows 7 on this virtual hard disk.

We open the Server Manager on the WIN2008R2, as shown in Figure 1, right click on Disk Management and select "Create VHD".

Figure 1

As shown in Figure 2, we create the virtual hard disk in the C:\VHD directory, the size of the virtual hard disk is 20G. Note that the virtual hard disk space should use a fixed size!

Figure 2