Boot XP vhd from Windows 7 Boot Manager

[Houn]

Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Houn]

How to boot XP vhd from Windows 7 Boot Manager ?

Not XP Mode.

Who can help me..............................

Impossible XP VHD in Windows 7?

identifier {a2c8f7be-8766-11de-8b59-002186ff1f5c}

device vhd=[C:]\vhd\xpsp3.vhd

path \ntldr

description Windows XP vhd

locale en-US

inherit {bootloadersettings}

recoverysequence {4ef9e527-87a0-11de-bd8c-ac9fe819923b}

recoveryenabled Yes

osdevice vhd=[C:]\vhd\xpsp3.vhd

systemroot \Windows

resumeobject {4ef9e525-87a0-11de-bd8c-ac9fe819923b}

nx OptIn

detecthal Yes

Does someone know if this is possible, what do you have to configure in bcdedit to get it to work?

[joakim]

It is not supported and will not be possible to nativeboot in vhd with xp unless you come up with a brilliant patch for numerous xp binaries (also including the kernel).

Joakim

[spacesurfer]

I think XP doesn't have drivers to recognize VHD hard drive at boot. It can after it has booted.

[cluberti]

Booting an entire OS inside a VHD from a parent OS requires the OS inside the VHD to also have a bootloader which is capable of doing the boot translation when inside of a VHD, which is currently something only 2008 R2 and Win7 can do natively, and something that can be done *ON* Server 2008 and Vista by replacing it's bootloader with one from Win7 (meaning Server 2008 or Vista can host an OS booting from VHD, but cannot actually boot from VHD themselves). Neither Server 2008/Vista nor XP/2003 can actually be an OS booting from within a VHD due to these OSes lacking any support for a VHD bootloader, and as such you cannot boot Server 2008/Vista or older from within a VHD.