Thread: ARG !!! grilled usb drive ??? help !
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Old 11-18-2008, 01:52 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by mjh215 View Post
VMWare handles USB 2.0, as for Firewire I'm not certain... Googling looks like you just mount it in the host OS and mount a new HD in the VM. I'm not certain how the transfer speed or latency would be affected by that. My recommendation, download it and give it a try. If it works good for you, come up with a new clean build and populate that with your must haves and VMWare. Image that, and party on....

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Thanks for the info. Its on my to do list to do over Christmas when I'll have a little free time.

The only problem is that I'm going to be in places with very limited or slow connectivity . So I'll need to download the heavy stiff well in advance.
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