We have made Windows/Linux to natively boot from VirtualBox VDI format. 
Compared to VHD, VDI seems to be fast and more resilent to abrupt power 
shutdown. We had cases that VHD is no longer bootable after a sudden power 
outage while VDI is still ok.
 
A bit more info:
 
(1) support installing Windows into a virtual disk file from ISO file or 
physical cdrom in a very straightforward way.

(2) support differencing disk files and snapshots.

(3) support one click snapshot and recovery

(4) support booting Windows PE based ISOs

(5) support immutable boot sessions where all system changes will be discarded 
after reboot

(6) support converting Windows 7 VHD to vbootable disks

http://www.vmlite.com/index.php/products/vboot
 
http://www.vmlite.com/vboot/instructions.html
 
A screenshot that shows how easy to take a snapshot and perform a recovery:
 
http://www.vmlite.com/vboot/vboot-snapshots.jpg
 
Thanks,
 
Huihong

 
 
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