MiniVHD is a minimalist implementation of read/write/creation of VHD files. It is designed to read and write to VHD files at a sector level. It does not enable file access, or provide mounting options. Those features are left to more advanced libraries and/or the OS.
MiniVHD aims to implement as much of the VHD specification as possible. Features include:
- Implemented in pure C. Some C99 features are used (such as stdint, stdbool, array initialisation), so not compatible with strict ANSI C
- Full support for fixed, sparse (dynamic) and differencing VHD images
- Open existing VHD images
- VHD image creation
- Conversion to/from raw disk images
- Read/write sectors to VHD images
- Aims to be cross platform, although not fully there yet. Works with MinGW-w64, and presumably GCC/Clang
- Simple to include and use (I hope)
Include minivhd.h in your source to get started. See minivhd.h for documentation of the API. Then link the application with the library (-lminivhd for UNIX and WinGW, or minivhd.lib for Visual Studio on Windows.)
Please note, an older version of this library can be found in the minivhd-v1 branch of this repository, if required for some reason.