Principal Program Manager at the .NET product Group (Microsoft Corp in Redmond, Seattle). Focus on Machine Learning .NET (ML.NET), .NET Core, Microservices based architecture, Docker Containers, Azure services.
You can install Windows 8 into a .VHD following a similar process (like this post I wrote) than when you install it on a raw hard drive, but if you want to have a clean master .vhd which is not related to any specific installation and machine name, and you want to re-use this master .vhd in many machines over time, then the following procedure...