IVMHardDisk interface

The IVMHardDisk interface provides access to a hard disk image. It can be accessed through the IVMHardDiskConnection::HardDisk property or the IVMVirtualServer::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 hard disk image.
Convert	Converts a disk image to either a dynamically expanding disk image or a fixed-size disk image.
Merge	Merges a differencing hard disk image with its parent disk image.
MergeTo	Merges a differencing hard disk image with all of its parents (up to and including the root parent hard disk image) 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 current hard disk image file.
HostDriveIdentifier	Read-only	A string that identifies the host drive linked to by this virtual hard disk image.
HostFreeDiskSpace	Read-only	The amount of remaining disk space available on the host computer for the current hard disk image file.
Parent	Read-only	The parent of the current differencing hard disk image.
Security	Read-only	The virtual hard disk's security object.
SizeInGuest	Read-only	The size, in bytes, of the hard disk image, as represented in the guest operating system.
SizeOnHost	Read-only	The size, in bytes, of the hard disk image file on the host computer.
Type	Read-only	The type of the current hard disk image.


Product	Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 onWindows Server 2003
Download	Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update onWindows Server 2008orWindows Server 2003
Header	VsComInterfaces.h