WIM to VHD utility and Physical to VHD utility

Every now and then I come across a very very handy tool – this past couple of weeks I have found 2! Both that are useful for creating Virtual Disks.

So.. first one is used to create a VHD file from a WIM file – uses for me are to be able to create a fresh Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 boot to VHD vhds without having to actually do an install – just boot create the install and then boot to the VHD to finish the install (basically you pick up from the Out of Box Experience OOBE) – grab it from here.

Second util is just as cool – basically using this tool you can take a running Windows system and create on the fly a VHD file. Then you could take that VHD file and mount it as a Hyper-V virtual disk.. sweet eh? So this one you can get here.

So – go virtualise!

Cheers

kyle