How is the 137GB limit counted in Virtual PC (two systems on one disk)?

Posted by Nux on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Nux
Published on 2012-03-28T11:03:05Z Indexed on 2012/03/28 11:32 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 235

Filed under:
|

I have a dual boot (Win7, XP) physical machine on my old computer which I want to virtualize and move to my new one. So I've uninstalled everything that I can and run shrink from RescueCD (used GParted).

Now I have two about 80GiB partitions with a gap between them, so still this seem to be above the given limit. Still the resulting VHD (made with Disk2vhd) is much below the limit (about 110GiB) and both partitions are below the limit.

So my question is - is it failing due to the limitations of disk size for VPC or is failing simply because it's a dual boot system. Or maybe it would work if I would move partitions to be close to each other (the gap between them is about 171GB and the whole physical disk is 1TB)?

© Server Fault or respective owner

Related posts about virtualpc

Related posts about dual-boot