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 ...

I am trying to boot the trial of Windows 2008 to do some testing, and have been digging around with no luck so far... The machine I created opens and then the 'Windows is loading files...' progress ...