Not sure this is the right forum, but I couldn't find any that would suit this topic out of the box.so here goes:I like the new VHD Mount feature in disk management, it is important to me because I have a relatively small disk and still like to use partitions. Through VHD files my data partitions only take as much space as I put on them and it makes them really easy to backup.But I have a few gripes with it:1. It is not persistent (doesn't re-mount when rebooting)2. Should support for persistent mounting be added in the future, please also make sure the VHD gets mounted together with the physical disks (right after them). In WinXP I had to use diskpart to reassign drive letters because the VHD would get mounted so late in the boot process that XP got confused and "forgot" existing drive letter assignments. Basically, this should work so that drive letter assignments would be remembered and that the disk would be available before any services require it.3. It would be great if support was also added for mounting ISO images. 4. Better yet - just release an API / make vhd mount service pluginable so that anyone can write their own plugin for image format of choice.5. The mounting should be accessible from Explorer context menu6. I miss the "compact disk" option which would perform the same operations to compact the VHD that are now performed in two (three if I save to a new file) steps from VirtualPC guest + disk wizard.7. There should be an option that would enable me to back up such a VHD file (read-only access and integrity guarantee)

Does nobody else require this functionality?I was sort of hoping to start a discussion about this.

Yes I agree, VHD's should be persistent by default IMO, and ISO mounting would be awesome.Shon

I did a full search on VHD with live search and google, but found no useful info on the subject. Seems this isn't exactly a topic many people would be interested in.Mostly one can find blogs describing how to install Win7 to a VHD image. Not much else :(

Does MS have any official position on this? Anybody knows?

Add to the unwanted features the following:1. A VHD cannot be mounted or created if it is to be compressed???2. If you intend to install Win7 into a VHD, it must be created FIXED size, creating it as dynamically expanding will BSOD on first reboot. Also, it can't be compressed.3. Installing Win7 into a VHD works fine, but the page file is created on another "randomly" chosen partition. This makes rearranging the drive letters after setup much harder.

What i realy realy want is toboot nativ from a vhd with a Linux distribution on it. That would make the vhd-boot awesome for me and i could kill all my linux partitions for the rest of my life.

You get the BSOD if the vhd max size is greater than the physical size or of the physical free space (I don't remember, but it's written in the BSOD).