VHD, or to merge them permanently into the VHD. Different child images based on the same parent image also allow "cloning" of VHDs; at least the globally unique identifier (GUID) must be different.
* Linked to a hard disk (aka pass-through): a file that contains a link to a physical hard drive or partition of a physical hard drive.

Advantages

Significant benefits result from the ability to boot a physical computer from a virtual hard drive:

* Ease of deployment:

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