My STAR system is on a VM that runs off an external drive. It works fine, but it’s sluggish and I don’t care to have the hassle of an external drive. I found a larger hard drive for my laptop, but I want to move the VM to the larger hard drive and put it into the laptop as the boot drive.
I have both VMware Workstation on a PC as well as VirtualBox on a PC and my Mac. Here’s the process I want to use: STAR VM Clonezilla ISO 320 GB IDE hard drive connected to host via USB I’ll set up the Clonezilla ISO to boot, which should allow me to copy the VM to the physical drive. This is a common method to copy a VM to a physical device. Here’s the rub: I can’t get the VM to recognize the USB connected drive as a hard drive. While it gives me the ability to add one via the VM settings, it wants to see a .vmdk or similar virtual drive, not a physical drive. Apparently there are ways to create a vmdk file that “points” at a physical drive, but I’ve been unsuccessful in getting this to work. I’m stumped as to how to proceed at this point. There’s got to be a way to get the VM to recognize the USB hard drive. ???? -D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
