In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you can native boot from a virtual hard disk without a hypervisor In response to my posts about managing multiboot with Windows 7 and Linux, Microsoft IT Pro ...
On Windows VMs, you'd typically run defrag and Precompact (from precompact.iso), then use VS/VPC to compress the VHD while the VM is offline.<BR><BR>I have a Linux VM with a VHD of ~3GB but df reports ...