I do not have enough disk to hold another virtual disk of the size I desire. I have a Mac formatted usb drive that my windows machine does not recognize because of the mac format. If I cannot create a virtual disk on that drive, how can I use it for both the Mac and PC sides of my system?
Should and could I put a share folder on it? Thanks.

neilford

Eric,

I used your GUI program to add a virtual disk, but my VM does not see it. Is this because it is on another

disk? I created it on an external USB drive that is formatted for a Mac. My Virtual XP machine sees the

usb device, but will not open it because it is formatted as a Mac drive, even though it has the virtual drive

is on it. Am I making sense ? How do I get the VM to see this virtual disk> Thanks.

neilford

I did this and I have two observations:

1) The virtual second disk did not mount to my XP os.

2) I could not mount it because the program told me that the " host " was using the

disk and I had to close all applications accessing the disk before I could use it.

This all left me with no 2nd disk.

neilford

Eric,

I created the virtual disk using your GUI program. I put it on my USB drive. I changed the .vmx file as you suggested
to mount it and it did. I could see the icon in the bottom of the VM. I could open the settings for it. It did not come up
in " My Computer ", so I don't think it was mounted in XP, I think. Also, that is when I noticed that my USB drive
disappeared from my Mac's desktop. Is it not possible to have both drives mounted? Do I need to partition the drive
into a windows and a mac drive? I can do this, if it is necessary. Thanks.

neilford

BTW,

When I tried to put a Shared Folder on the drive, a similar thing happened. The drive disappeared off my Mac's desktop.

Eric, Here's an update:

When I boot up my VM with the Shared Folder I created on the USB drive added to the VM, the drive disappears from the desktop and the Shared Folder cannot be loaded. If I disconnect the drive from the VM, the Shared Folder I created on it, does show up and I can access it. Does this make sense in how the Fusion works? Or is this an anomaly?

Here is a question. What I really want is not a shared folder between the host and the VM. I want a drive; a virtual drive to be more precise. If so, why would I create a Windows partition on this USB drive? Maybe I just need to disconnect the drive like I did for the shared folder and the drive will become available. Is this correct? Thanks for your help.

neilford