Pascal's blog » USB Drive http://blog.dreamdevil.com Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:21:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Ubuntu: Run a virtual machine from an NTFS formatted USB drive http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/08/28/ubuntu-run-virtual-machine-from-ntfs-usb-drive/ http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/08/28/ubuntu-run-virtual-machine-from-ntfs-usb-drive/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:04:49 +0000 Pascal http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2008/08/28/run-a-virtual-machine-from-an-ntfs-formatted-usb-drive/ Since I may not always be on the same machine or with the same operating system when I want to run a virtual machine I bring with me, I store them on a Western Digital MyPassport USB Drive.  This drive is formatted using the NTFS file system.  I had a problem when I first tried to run one using VMWare Server on Ubuntu 8.04.  The virtual machine would not start and it didn’t gave me an error.  Fortunately I found this blog post (Lornajane) that talked about a setting to put in the vmx file of the virtual machine:

mainMem.useNamedFile=”FALSE”

This worked perfectly for me too :D

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