Configuring a W2008R2 vhd as a boot partition on Win8 laptop

This is an update to the earlier post. Now that I have a Windows 8 Laptop, and that there is a new script, (convert-windowsimage.ps1) the process is now easier.

Generally, only 2 process required:
1. Creating the vhd.
2. Configuring dual-boot for the vhd.

1. Creating the vhd.

Make sure you had donwloaded the Convert-windowsimage.ps1 script from the web.
Locate your source iso file, and run the following command:

.\Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 -sourcepath i:\sources\install.wim -Edition ServerEnterprise -vhdpath d:\2008DB.vhd

The various Edition are as follows:
 1. ServerStandard

 2. ServerStandardCore
 3. ServerEnterprise
 4.  ServerEnterpriseCore
 5.  ServerDataCenter
 6.  ServerDataCenterCore
 7.  ServerWeb
 8.  ServerWebCore

The vhd would be a default dynamically expanding 40GB vhd. It will also be mounted automatically.

2. Configuring dual-boot for the vhd.

Despite the verbose message in step 1, you will still need to configure the dual-boot.

Run

Bcdedit /enum

to verify the creation.