Using Hyper-V, what are the pros/cons of using the "Physical Hard Disk" option when adding a drive to a VM as opposed to just creating a fixed-size VHD that is as large as the disk?
The intention is for this disk to be allocated to a single VM so there isn't any requirement to have anything else using it.
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I use VMs because they are portable. When you attach a physical disk, you lose most of the portability. It is much easier to copy a VHD file to another host than it is to move the physical disk between them.