On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:02 PM, JMJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > My work schedule has changed and now instead of being on the road for > mostly just weekends, I'll be on the road for 2 1/2 months without > returning home. > <snip> > Could I put my existing laptop drive (with existing software install) > into an external enclosure and run that as a guest OS via VMWare? > > I hope this is something you want and will enjoy. Talking from experience, living on the road is fun for the first few months so as long as this stays at the 2 1/2 month limit or so you should enjoy it. As to suggestions... if you are traveling constantly (i.e. every day or every week) you want to keep your load as light as possible and, if you are flying, you want to make it as easy to get through security as possible. Therefore, unless you have a need to run both at the same time, I would suggest just getting an external hard drive and booting from it when you want to do personal stull. You can also get / create a bootable pen drive for when you need to jump on quickly for a minute to do something. Alternatively, if your laptop hard drive is big enough and your company IT policy supports it, you could just partition the hard drive in your computer and dual boot. That said, I would probably still go with the external hard drive, they are small and light now, completely powered off USB and can have capacities up to 500Gb and you can always have more than one if you need to. As to running your current laptop drive in an external case, yes, you can do that and it words well. You might even be able to boot the laptop from it with a bit of work (driver updates etc) but you probably won't be able to run it in a VMWare session directly, you would have to image it first and VMWare supplies a tool to do this. Another thing to consider is if your company considers anything done on it's hardware it's property. If this is the case I would seriously consider buying a separate laptop.
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