Native VHD Boot on Windows 7 Home Premium?
I know that the Native VHD Boot Feature is only supported with Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate. According to Microsoft's website, I'm confused if that means only Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate may boot from within the VHD either natively or on a Virtual Machine; or if it means you need those versions to be able to boot from the VHD. I'm currently running Windows 7 Home Premium. I would like to know before I decide if I want to purchase a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for an anytime upgrade. I want to just run an operating system different from Windows 7 off of the VHD for native boot only. I'm not sure. Please let me know ASAP!
January 17th, 2011 12:26am

Only Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate can be booted from the VHD, all other editions are not licensed to use the feature and fail to run. You can use this 3rd party tool: http://www.vmlite.com/index.php/products/vboot/download which allows booting of all Vista/7 Editions as well as XP and Linux. André"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/
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January 17th, 2011 11:36am

Thanks for the info! Even though I can't use Microsoft's VHD Boot feature, that 3rd Party tool VMLite VBoot sure looks interesting!! Thanks again!
January 17th, 2011 2:10pm

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