Native VHD booting on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

If you have been testing Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, you must have come across native VHD booting feature. This allows us to boot OS from VHD file residing on the hard drive. You don’t need a Hypervisor to boot from VHD. Windows 7 boot architecure changed a bit to accomodate this. In fact, Windows Server 2008 has the option to boot from a file.