Running a VM off a USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Mac/Parallels/XP
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I use a MacBook Air as my primary machine, and the 128GB SSD means space is precious. To save about 10 GB, I've been running Parallels with a Windows XP VM off an external USB hard drive, which performs as well in everyday use as running the VM off the internal SSD. So, I bought a tiny 32GB USB 2.0…
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Fix for: Running a VM off a USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Mac/Parallels/XP
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I was just going to comment with this, but ran out of room... USB flash drives are very poor for random access read and write unless you specifically purchase a USB flash drive for speed. You'd know if you had a 'fast' USB thumb drive since you prob…
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