For testing purposes I would like to configure a partition from my Mac host disk as a secondary disk in a Windows virtual machine. That Mac partition is free and will ideally be formatted by the Windows VM.
I see the choice of attaching a BootCamp partition. It does not work and fails configuring it in the VM. I suppose this mode wants a real BootCamp partition, that is one with a Windows installed on it. I don't want to install Windows on that partition, I just want a NTFS partition, native on the Mac disk, seen as a Disk D: or whatever in my virtual machine.
The purpose? Especially testing if, along side scsi setting in the VM configuration the I/O performances over that partition might be better than on a fixed size (non growing, pre-allocated) virtual disk on the host filesystem.
Parallels? Is it even worth desiring to test such a configuration? Maybe you know from start that it won't bring additional performance? Is this possible now (without loosing my time installing a Windows though BootCamp which I won't use)? Is it scheduled for a later release of the product?
I see the choice of attaching a BootCamp partition. It does not work and fails configuring it in the VM. I suppose this mode wants a real BootCamp partition, that is one with a Windows installed on it. I don't want to install Windows on that partition, I just want a NTFS partition, native on the Mac disk, seen as a Disk D: or whatever in my virtual machine.
The purpose? Especially testing if, along side scsi setting in the VM configuration the I/O performances over that partition might be better than on a fixed size (non growing, pre-allocated) virtual disk on the host filesystem.
Parallels? Is it even worth desiring to test such a configuration? Maybe you know from start that it won't bring additional performance? Is this possible now (without loosing my time installing a Windows though BootCamp which I won't use)? Is it scheduled for a later release of the product?