Re: [MBZ] OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine
> 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
Re: [MBZ] OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:42:26 -0400 Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > 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. You need to add stuff to Virtual Box (other downloadable stuff on their website) to get it to recognize USB and the file-sharing locations on your disk you have specified. I have not done that for my Virtual Machine and cannot access them yet. Philip will be able to tell you more. Craig ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine
I'm reminded of the Lazarus Long book where his AI decides it would like to be human so they grow a body for her and transplant the AI into the human. Pretty advanced stuff for the time it was written. Actually on investigation it was in "Time Enough for Love" which was written in 1973 so computers were already a thing... -Curt On Thursday, August 20, 2020, 12:43:15 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 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. 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 ___ 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
[MBZ] OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine
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
