> Dan wrote: > 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.
Why not keep it as a virtual machine? It is very easy to copy, move to new hardware, keep special software running on old operating systems, etc. Especially since from what I remember STAR is picky. If it's happy in a VM - leave it there! > I can’t get the VM to recognize the USB connected drive as a > hard drive. Virtualbox or VMWare? I haven't used VMWare in more than a decade. Virtualbox can mount external harddrives via USB. But the recent open source versions of virtualbox need "extensions" to allow USB. Those are separate pieces due to licensing. I only run Virtualbox host on Linux, so I can't comment on what is included on a Mac on MSWin install. Might that be your problem? I still recommend keeping it as a virtual machine and not turning it into hardware. But maybe I'm not understanding what you are really trying to do. _______________________________________ 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
