My MacBook Air has only a 64G hard drive which is so small that I don't want to install virtual machines on it. I'm planning to buy a 1TB portable USB hard disk to run virtual machines. Has anyone tried running a Windows 7 VirtualBox virtual machine on a USB3.0 hard drive with success?
MacOS – Can a VirtualBox Windows 7 virtual machine be installed on a USB hard disk
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Best Answer
Yes, it's possible.
First you need to create the virtual machine, after you completed the wizard don't start the VM but go to the menu
Machine->Show in FinderCopy the 3 files (
VM Name.vbox,VM Name.vbox-prev,VM Name.vdi) to your external hard disk.After select the VM inside virtualbox and go to menu
Machine->Remove...and click the buttonDelete all filesAfter go to menu
Machine->Add..and select the VM file you copied before.Now the VM is inside virtualbox and runs from your external hard disk.