IVMVirtualPC::GetHardDisk method

[Windows Virtual PC is no longer available for use as of Windows 8. Instead, use the Hyper-V WMI provider (V2).]

Retrieves an object corresponding to an existing disk image file.

Syntax

HRESULT GetHardDisk(
  [in]          BSTR        imagePath,
  [out, retval] IVMHardDisk **hardDisk
);

imagePath [in]: The full path to an existing disk image file.
hardDisk [out, retval]: An IVMHardDisk object corresponding to this disk image.

This method can return one of these values.

Return code/value	Description
S_OK 0	The operation was successful.
E_POINTER 0x80004003	The imagePath or hardDisk parameter is NULL.
HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) 0x80070002	The system cannot find the file specified by the imagePath parameter.
HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND) 0x80070003	The system cannot find the path specified by the imagePath parameter.
HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_INVALID_NAME) 0x8007007b	The imagePath parameter contains an invalid character (one of "*?:<>/\|"").
HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME) 0x800700a1	The imagePath parameter specifies an empty or relative path. An absolute path is required.
HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW) 0x8007006f	The path specified by the imagePath parameter is too long. The length of the path must be less than 260 characters.
DISP_E_EXCEPTION 0x80020009	An unexpected error has occurred.
VM_E_HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION_DISABLED 0xA0040951	The processor does not support Hardware Accelerated Virtualization (HAV) extensions.

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	None supported
End of client support	Windows 7
Product	Windows Virtual PC
Header	VPCCOMInterfaces.h
IID	IID_IVMVirtualPC is defined as 236ba0d9-a24a-4292-a132-27c1421dfd01