Boot Windows from VHD

Hey.
I have to work with Windows Server 2012 for a university project but my laptop doesn't have Intel VT-x. I know that it's possible to boot Windows from a VHD file, in Windows I just need to add the file.vhd to MBR.
Can I boot a VHD file with Windows on it from syslinux? If yes how I install Windows on the file using Linux?
Thanks in advance,
Hugo Rodrigues.

GloW_on_dub wrote:Not sure to understand, why not use virtualbox ?
Because my laptop doesn't support Intel VT-x and Windows Server 2012 it's only available in x86_64 and I only can virtualize x86 systems
ayekat wrote:
It's very unlikely that you can simply boot directly from a VHD file without some sort of hypervisor (since there is a non-negligible amount of virtualisation going on here).
According to this, you are not really "adding the file to the MBR", but rather adding an entry to the Windows-bootloader to take the file into account. I suppose that behind the scenes it's loading some kind of Microsoft Virtual blabla to launch the system that's on the VHD.
This was just to clarify; I cannot tell you whether it is possible from syslinux or GRUB, but it will probably invole a lot of hacking, since you need to load some hypervisor like VirtualBox, VMWare or at least qemu/KVM.
I know it's possible to do it with a VHD with a Linux OS. Look up in here
ayekat wrote:The fact that your hardware does not support hardware virtualisation (Intel VT-x), is annoying...
Yeah it kinda sucks
Last edited by Hugao (2014-05-07 14:53:44)

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    Quote
    What types of drives can I use with Storage Spaces?
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    From: http://social.techne...stions-faq.aspx 
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