How to use VMs on attached storage devices

[summer999]

I have VM Workstation 6.0

Is it possible to store and VMs on external storage e.g. a USB mass storage device?

I tried copying a VM from my PC to the USB storage unit but when I try and open it I get a message saying

'cannot open one of the virtual disks neded by this VM as is larger than the max file size supported by the host file system. '

Its FAT32 if i format to NTFS will that fix the problem ?

[KevinG]

Most likely your virtual machine virtual disk is larger that 4GB. The Max file size for FAT32 is 4GB, so this is why you received that message. You could use "vmware-vdiskmanager" that is include with WS to split your virtual disk into 2GB files.

Yes, the other option is to convert from FAT32 to NTFS

[summer999]

brill - formatted to ntfs and works fine !

[KevinG]

Cool