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Deploying a XPe Image directly into a VHD |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008
by Michel Roth
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Windows XP embedded is a popular Thin Client operating system choice,
mostly because of its broad hardware support and the option to install
applications. Even though this kind of conflicts with the concept of a
Thin Client, it happens. A lot.
nstalling means testing. Using virtualizion software to test
application installations is pretty common. To do this to Windows XPe
is a little bit harder: deploying a runtime into a VHD is not that
straight forward;
you need either an Operating System in another partition of the VM or
to boot to WinPE and copy it over the network. Wouldn’t it be cool, if
we a can treat the VHD file as a drive or folder and copy the XPe
builds directly to it. VHDMount, a tool available with
Microsoft Virtual Server R2 can help us with just that. There is a
short time hit to set it up initially , but deploying runtimes becomes
a breeze later.
Check out how to exactly do this at the Windows Embedded team blog.
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