Fun fact: The file signature for a VHD file is "conectix" because Microsoft acquired the virtualization tech for VirtualPC (and the team) from Connectix in 2003. They went on to build native virtualization in Hyper-V, which is a clean break ( @WSV_GUY?)
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For an idea of how old the VirtualPC tech is, if you look at that image you& #39;ll see "Wi2k" which is in the VHD specification to mark the creator of the VHD being a Windows machine. Windows 2000.

History of Virtual PC, before the tidal-wave of security changes in XP SP2, which was a massive alteration in how a lot of stuff worked in Windows. Microsoft was under siege by security meltdowns in their products.

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