A few comments. Image the laptop and run the image from an image file on the external hard drive. This should leave room on the external drive for either an install of your virtual machine software or the installer for your virtual machine software. This will allow you to "easily" use it with any laptop or desktop available.
One nice thing about VMWare / Virtualbox is that the virtual hardware is the same on all machines so once you get your install comfortable on it, you can then run the image on any computer and don't have to worry about drivers. Unfortunately, by doing it my way you will not be able to just install the external hard drive internal to the laptop and boot it. Also, you may find that the laptop you buy won't support your external as an internal. Some laptop makers, especially of small laptops have gone to 1.6 (1.8?) inch drives and you will probably buy a 2.5 inch drive. (more capacity, better speed) Good luck and let us know how it goes. Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
