Following up on assorted e-mails and comments from my blog.  Rather than keep the responses hidden in the comments I thought I’d repost them:

Q: Can I use VHDMount.exe with Windows XP SP2?
A: Yes you can, there is a workaround and Ben Armstrong has all the nifty details.

Q: Can I download just the VHDMount.exe?
A: No, but but you can choose to only install the VHDmount components via command line

  • Extract the installation msi (setup.exe /c /t .)
  • use the command line msiexec /i “Virtual Server 2005 Install.msi” /qn ADDLOCAL=VHDMount

Q: How would you use vssadmin.exe to create a shadow copy of a VHD?
A: Well I’m not entirely sure.  I saw a blog post somewhere detailing how to extract a file from an existing shadow.  It’s one of those things on my “I wonder if its possible” list to do. 

Q: Where is the latest build number of VM additions documented?
A: Um, I don’t know anywhere where the build numbers are “officially recorded“, but I maintain a list here: History of the Virtual Machine Additions

 

Anyway that’s all I’ve got time for at the moment, but before I go both KB 897614 and KB 867572 have been updated in the last 30 days: