Dehuti
Electric whale
I google'd around trying to find a solution for a problem, which is: how to use virtualization software available for OS X when you don't want to create virtual disk rather - you'd like to use physical, real HDD attached to your Intel-based Mac by USB of Firewire? See the difference? Start a virtual system from a real drive with proper Windows on it... Just rip-off disk from your PC and start the environment on the Mac??? Beautiful..... I discovered, that VMWare Server can handle such boot-up and provide you with virtual environment launched from a USB-connected drive, but unfortunately this product is not available on Mac...
I hope Parallel Desktop team has a roadmap for the product which includes boot-up from USB-attached drive, but FOR NOW I assume temporary solution exists: to convert physical drive partition to disk image (DMG, ISO, TOAST) and then, reconvert it to HDD-expanded virtual drive format accepted by Parallels, and boot system from it!!! Aaaaa brilliant! The only problem is I tried that with mentioned disk image formats and Parallels failed to accept any of the drive images as "expanded virtual drive format" and even when it agreed on ISO after change of extension - was not very keen to booting from it.
Any ideas my geeky fellows?
I hope Parallel Desktop team has a roadmap for the product which includes boot-up from USB-attached drive, but FOR NOW I assume temporary solution exists: to convert physical drive partition to disk image (DMG, ISO, TOAST) and then, reconvert it to HDD-expanded virtual drive format accepted by Parallels, and boot system from it!!! Aaaaa brilliant! The only problem is I tried that with mentioned disk image formats and Parallels failed to accept any of the drive images as "expanded virtual drive format" and even when it agreed on ISO after change of extension - was not very keen to booting from it.
Any ideas my geeky fellows?