Comments on: Double clicking on a VHD to mount it http://blog.kazmarek.com/2007/04/19/double-clicking-on-a-vhd-to-mount-it/ Sun, 20 May 2012 11:32:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: AlexJ http://blog.kazmarek.com/2007/04/19/double-clicking-on-a-vhd-to-mount-it/#comment-9549 AlexJ Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:29:22 +0000 http://blog.kazmarek.com/?p=24#comment-9549 Hi, with Hyper-V Server there are an additional swith is required to dismount: /c ommit or /d iscard So the working reg file for using with Hyper-V Server is: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell] @="Mount" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Discard] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Discard\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\" /d /u \"%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Commit] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Commit\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\" /c /u \"%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Mount] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Mount\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\" /p \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vhd] @="Virtual.Machine.HD" Happy mounting... Alex Hi,

with Hyper-V Server there are an additional swith is required to dismount: /c ommit or /d iscard
So the working reg file for using with Hyper-V Server is:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell]
@=”Mount”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Discard]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Discard\command]
@=”\”C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\” /d /u \”%1\”"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Commit]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Commit\command]
@=”\”C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\” /c /u \”%1\”"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Mount]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Mount\command]
@=”\”C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\” /p \”%1\”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vhd]
@=”Virtual.Machine.HD”

Happy mounting…
Alex

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