My MacBook Air has only a 64G hard drive which is so small that I don't want to install virtual machines on it. I'm planning to buy a 1TB portable USB hard disk to run virtual machines. Has anyone tried running a Windows 7 VirtualBox virtual machine on a USB3.0 hard drive with success?
-
Did it work? If so which hard disk did you use?– Donia AmerJul 13, 2016 at 21:12
1 Answer
Yes, it's possible.
First you need to create the virtual machine, after you completed the wizard don't start the VM but go to the menu Machine
-> Show in Finder
Copy the 3 files (VM Name
.vbox, VM Name
.vbox-prev, VM Name
.vdi) to your external hard disk.
After select the VM inside virtualbox and go to menu Machine
-> Remove...
and click the button Delete all files
After go to menu Machine
-> Add..
and select the VM file you copied before.
Now the VM is inside virtualbox and runs from your external hard disk.