Are you talking about doing this within the VM or from the hypervisor layer? If doing this from the hypervisor you will still be backing up the whole VM file, so I don't see this buying you anything.

Maybe I'm just screwing this up, but I don't see how. I have a PC backed up to a VHD file. On a Windows 7 box, I have some version of VMWare, something from within the last year. I can create a new VM ...

Code 42, makers of the CrashPlan backup service for small businesses (but not individuals, see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), has announced that, starting in May 2019, the ...

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Recently I was setting up some Hyper-V virtual machines for a project that I am working on. For this particular project I needed a few virtual machines running Windows 7 and an older version of Office ...

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It may not deliver the same performance as a bare-metal setup, but it's good enough for most titles ...