IVMHardDisk interface

[Windows Virtual PC is no longer available for use as of Windows 8. Instead, use the Hyper-V WMI provider (V2).]

Provides access to a hard disk image. It can be accessed through the IVMHardDiskConnection::HardDisk property or the IVMVirtualPC::GetHardDisk method.

Members

The IVMHardDisk interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. IVMHardDisk also has these types of members:

The IVMHardDisk interface has these methods.

Method	Description
Compact	Compacts a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk image.
Convert	Converts any virtual hard disk to either a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk or a fixed-size virtual hard disk.
Merge	Merges a differencing virtual hard disk with its parent disk image.
MergeTo	Merges a differencing virtual hard disk with all of its parents (up to and including the root parent virtual hard disk) to a new hard disk file.

The IVMHardDisk interface has these properties.

Property	Access type	Description
File	Read-only	The full path name of the virtual hard disk file.
HostFreeDiskSpace	Read-only	The amount of remaining disk space available on the host for the virtual hard disk.
Parent	Read/write	The parent of the differencing virtual hard disk.
SizeInGuest	Read-only	The size of the virtual hard disk in the guest operating system.
SizeOnHost	Read-only	The size of the virtual hard disk file on the host computer.
Type	Read-only	The type of the virtual hard disk.

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	None supported
End of client support	Windows 7
Product	Windows Virtual PC
Header	VPCCOMInterfaces.h
IID	IID_IVMHardDisk is defined as ffa14ae6-48f5-42a4-8a22-186f2e5c7db0