Virtual Disk Service: A set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks. VDS provides an end-to-end solution for managing storage hardware and disks, and for creating volumes on those disks.

Consider the following scenario. You develop an application that uses the VDMEnumProcessWOW function to enumerate virtual DOS machines (VDMs) that are running 16-bit Windows tasks. However, when the application runs on a computer that is running a 32-bit version of Windows Vista, the application returns no output. Or, the application returns incorrect output.

For example, you may experience this problem when you use the application to return a list of 16-bit Notepad instances.

You apply update 948515 on a computer that is running Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1). After you do this, you experience problems when you try to mount Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files by using the Vhdmount.exe tool.

For example, if you run the vhdmount /m vhd file command or the vhdmount /p vhd file command, you may receive the following error message:

The specified operation could not be completed as an unexpected error has occurred.

Though earlier versions seemed to work fine, version 6.0.4 officially supports 32-bit and 64-bit Vista SP1. Keep reading →

In VMware Workstation 5.0, you cannot access the contents of a virtual CD-ROM drive in a Windows Vista virtual machine. Additionally, you cannot use the Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) ISO file to start the virtual machine.

This article discusses virtual address space usage in Windows game development. The article describes potential problems that may occur when you run applications in a modern operating system such as Windows Vista. The article contains information about an update that may resolve some of these problems. For more information about these problems, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/WDDM_VA.mspx