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Kingpatzer
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‎03-23-2012 10:21 PM

Help with creating virtual machine file from physical external drive?

I have a physical external partition that I wish to turn into a virtual machine.

It is a 32G NTFS partition with Windows 7 64x that I can connect to my computer via USB. It appears on the mac as

/dev/disk1s4 /Volumes/Untitled

I have Fusion 4.1 on Lion.

I can't figure out how to copy the drive to a file on my macbook hard drive.

Thanks,

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WoodyZ
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‎03-23-2012 11:58 PM

If VMware Fusion does not recognize it as a Boot Camp partition (which it did in earlier versions) then you'll have to use vmware-rawdiskCreator to create a meta-data .vmdk virtual hard disk to use the external drive as a Raw Disk in a Virtual Machine.

In a Terminal copy and paste the following command and then press Enter.  This will output the internal help file showing command syntax.

"/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator"

The above pathname for vmware-rawdiskCreator is for VMware Fusion 4.x.  Previous versions of VMware Fusion store vmware-rawdiskCreator in a different location, being  "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator".

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