ToutVirtual has made (one of the first?) VHD images/appliance available for download  as part of the Microsoft VHD Test Drive program.

The appliance is called “VirtualIQ Professional Virtual Machine” and a snippet from their website is below:

This virtual machine, packaged with Microsoft Windows, can monitor heterogeneous virtual environment consisting of VMware, XenSource, Microsoft and Novell virtualization platforms.

Sounds cool.  Thanks to Volker for the news, and there is more info in his post “Test Drive partner images posted“.

I’ve just registered and downloading the appliance now (about 2Gb) — I’ll post my findings in a few days.