Hi Cara, Thanks for the correction. It does seem to me though that there is a much simpler solution to this problem than the one you guys proposed, and it is this.
When someone creates a virtual machine VMWare Workstation etc doesn't care where it resides as long as it can find it and load it. What about if Will were to load Windows XP etc into his external drive as a virtual machine? That way he could use as much of the external drive as he wants for his virtual machine, and still be able to store other stuff on it as well. It seems to me to be the most logical solution for this problem if Will doesn't want to buy a separate laptop for gaming. Of course, this assumes Will owns VMWare Fusion or Workstation already, and if he doesn't then it might not be so cost effective as buying a machine for this purpose outright. However, if he does this would be an easy solution to the problem. He could launch VMWare, create a virtual machine on the external, install XP there, and whenever he wants to play games just plug in the drive, launch VMWare Workstation, and voila. My only concern is that might cause a bit of lag when accessing files in the virtual machine, but it would be cheaper than buying a new laptop. Cheers! On 8/26/13, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Well Scott and Will, > > Of course it's not that easy! lol! I just double checked BootCamp on an > external SSD and while it appears from the descriptions that you can use > external drives for Windows BootCamp partitions, apparently you cannot. So > my bad. > > > I'm betting this is hackable as I'd done things with Windows partitions in > the past that are supposed to be impossible but right out of the box this > seems not easily possible at the moment. > > My apologies if I've inadvertently done exactly what Thomas just spoke about > recently! lol! Oops… > > I just wanted to double check and post this so no one wastes a bunch of time > struggling with this. > > Anyway, night All and hope this helps… > > Smiles, > > Cara :) --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
