Lab 6-2 Creating a Virtual Hard Disk in DOS

 

 

  1. Open Virtual PC.
  2. Close DOS so that the state is not saved.
  3. Click the DOS install and click the settings button in Virtual PC.

 

  1. Click Hard Disk 2 (it currently says None because you only have one virtual hard disk).
  2. Now click Virtual Disk Wizard

  1. Click next, create a new virtual hard disk, browse to where your other DOS disk is.
  2. Name this disk DOS Disk 2.VHD

  1. Create a Fixed Size disk.
  2. Make it 500 MB. We don’t need a big disk.
  3. Click Okay.

  1. Quit DOS, turn off (not save state).
  2. Click DOS
  3. Click settings.
  4. NOW you’re going to put in a second hard drive (the one you just created).

Reboot into DOS.

 

 

Questions

 

  1. What is a virtual hard disk?

 

 

  1. What can you do with this disk you just created?

 

 

  1. What are you going to need to do before you can use it? (Don’t do that, just tell me. The next lab has you doing stuff to it.)

 

 

  1. How many hard disks can you have in a virtual machine?

 

 

  1. How many network cards?

 

 

  1. Pretty cool, huh?