Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on putting together a new set of videos for WIM2VHD, but I’ve run into a bit of a problem.

I’m creating a video that goes through and explains the different command line options for WIM2VHD, but the end result, even after editing and re-encoding, is too large for me to upload to any of the video hosting providers that I want to use.

I could try to cut some more space out of the existing video, but it occurred to me that perhaps I should ask all of you what would work better for you.

Should I have one big video that explains all of the options, or should I have a very small video for each of the options?

Please leave a comment and let me know which you’d prefer.

It was my New Years Resolution that I’d do an average of 2 blog posts per week this year.  So far, I haven’t been doing a very good job of that, but I think I have a good excuse.  I’ve been very busy with preparing to release a new tool, and now, I can finally announce it.

Fine citizens of the Virtualization Nation: I present to you the Windows® Image to Virtual Hard Disk Converter, or WIM2VHD as I like to call it.

WIM2VHD is a tool that will create a bootable VHD from a specified Windows 7 or 2008 R2 WIM image (like the INSTALL.WIM file that ships on the installation DVDs) without having to run Windows Setup.  That means that you can a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine up and running much, much faster.

You can use these VHDs in Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Hyper-V, and ome other things, too.  We’ll talk more about that later.

You can get WIM2VHD here. 

I’ve done my best at creating some good documentation for WIM2VHD, which is available from the link above.  Please make sure that you read the

Well, it looks like I was too slow in getting my posts written, because a bunch of people have beaten me to the punch.

Ben Armstrong lso known as the Virtual PC Guy rote a post about getting Windows 7 working on Hyper-V.

Similarly, Brian Keller posted about getting Windows 7 running under Virtual PC 2007 SP1.

Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to be faster next time.

You knowust in case you haven’t heard it.  I’m sure there aren’t a lot of people talking about it or anything, so you might have missed it.  (There’s some good information in that link highly advise you to click on it if you plan on getting the beta.)

The beta is currently available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, but it will be available to the public at some point on 1/9.  That includes both the client and the server versions, which means that not only will you be able to play with all of the great work that’s been done in Windows 7 client, but you can also kick the tires on the next version of Hyper-V, which is included with Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2).

My team and I have been working super hard on Hyper-V in R2, and we’re really happy to be able to talk about it now.  I’ll have more about the new Hyper-V later on, but right now I’ve got some posts lined up that do what this blog was originally started for o tell you how to run a shiny new beta of Windows in