In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you can native boot from a virtual hard disk without a hypervisor In response to my posts about managing multiboot with Windows 7 and Linux, Microsoft IT Pro ...

I am trying to boot the trial of Windows 2008 to do some testing, and have been digging around with no luck so far... The machine I created opens and then the 'Windows is loading files...' progress ...