That should result in your PC running in a virtual environment you configure within Fusion on your Mac and with the full boot drive image from the original PC. NOTE: Remember that the physical PC and the virtual PC now have the same OS license key, so you refresh one of them with a non-duplicated OS license to keep to the terms of your OS. If the virtual machine is open, then you will need to shut down and close it first. Open the settings of the virtual machine. In the left pane select DVD Drive, then select (dot) Open an ISO image in the right pane. STEP 5 – Choose on the option Dynamically expanding or Fixed size as the virtual hard disk type and click on the OK button. STEP 6 – Once you do the above steps, you will find the Virtual hard disk created, towards the right of the window. Right click on it and choose the option Initialize.This helps you to create new volumes on the disk. A commonly image format used in Microsoft vitualization products is the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image format. It is both used the store hard disk images and and snapshots. The format is the main format used by e.g. Virtual PC, Virtual Server and Hyper-V Server.
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Virtual Drive Description Virtual Drive is a virtual DVD/Blu-ray emulator. It emulates maximum 18 drives and works with DVD/Blu-ray images. For example, to play a Blu-ray backup on PC with PowerDVD 8 or above, you need to use DVD Ripper to backup the Blu-ray to an ISO image file, and use Virtual Drive to mount it, then, PowerDVD will play it.
VDI – also known as Virtual Disk Image. VMDK – the VMware format of a virtual hard disk. VHD – the Microsoft format of a virtual hard disk. HDD – the image file of Parallels Version 2 format.
Dynamically allocated hard drive – the disk image will be created with a minimal size, but it grows automatically when more space is needed by the guest operating system. However, during the creation of a dynamically expanding disk, you specify a maximum capacity, which is the maximum capacity the disk will expand to. The main advantage of using this feature is that you are not wasting the disk space on the host before it is required, but there is a disadvantage associated with it in that it results in a slow performance if disk expansion happens pretty frequently.
Fixed size hard drive – a disk image file is created with the specified size. This option improves the write performance, but the disadvantage is that it will take a long time to create the disk image in the first place and you might end up wasting the disk space if it’s not required.