You can use several different types of virtual hard disks with virtual machines. This section describes using the different types of virtual hard disks. It also describes managing virtual disks, such as converting a virtual hard disk from one type to another, copying and moving, optimizing, and compacting.

This section covers:

• Copying a physical disk to a virtual hard disk
  
• Using Undo Disks
  
• Using differencing disks
  
• Using linked disks
  
• Converting virtual hard disks
  
• Optimizing virtual hard disks
  
• Copying and moving virtual hard disks
  
• Compacting dynamically expanding virtual hard disks
  
• Mounting virtual hard disks at the command line