Run VM From External Drive
If you install the software I spoke of in an earlier
post: “Read/Write to NTFS on external drive with
Mac”, you will be able to run a virtual machine from
your external drive. You need to have write access to
the NTFS drive to run the VM. You may think that
running a virtual machine from an external drive
would have bad performance, but it’s actually just as
responsive as if the files were on your machine. The
only times I’ve seen operations take an extended
amount of time is when you perform a Suspend, or when
you take a snapshot of the machine. The great part
about running the VM from the external drive is it
lets you keep the space on your laptop/desktop. My
MacBook has a 60 GB HD, and my average virtual
machine is weighing in at 30 GB, which is a huge
chunk of space to give up.
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