It would be great if a physical hard drive connected via SATA or Firewire could be dedicated to a virtual machine so that it can be physically managed by the guest operating system. Of course you can add a USB drive to the guest but that is kind of slower than SATA or even Firewire and not all features are passed through (e.g., S.M.A.R.T. to name just one).

I am using Fusion 3.0.0 for MacOSX on a MacPro. And no, to use a BootCamp partition with Windows installed is no alternative since I want to use the physical disk as a secondary drive to an existing virtual host.

Thanks for considering!

Best,
Kay Hidde