Cloning & deleting VM

[mrfearless47]

I've just added my 3rd 500GB harddrive to my Mac Pro. I've decided that putting the VM files on that disk, isolated from other files, would be a good idea. I was able to clone both my Windows XP and Ubuntu LTS VMs to the 3rd drive. Is it safe to delete the original VMs on the boot drive?

Thanks.

 

[mrfearless47]

Cloning and Deleting a VM

This thread may have been buried over the long Thanksgiving weekend. Let's give it another try. I've added a third 500 GB drive to my Mac Pro. I cloned all my VM's and installed them on the third hard drive. Once this is done, can I safely delete the original VM's hosted on my boot drive? For relevant info, I'm using Parallels Build 1970 on a Mac Pro 2.66 GHz with 4 GB RAM and running OSX 10.4.8.

Thanks.

 

[joem]

They make nice backups, but if you aren't running from them, you can delete them. If the files on the new drive are copies of the old VMs, you can always copy them back, right? Not that this is necessary. You can copy a VM (all files) anywhere you like (except a network drive) using the finder, and boot it by double clicking the .pvs file.