Hey Tom, Depends what games he's shooting for I guess. In my experience of Vmware Fusion, anything less than a beast of a computer feels kinda sluggish during game play when you're running it in a vm.
Scott On 8/26/13, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > 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/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
