VM Disk Across Network?

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Cubsfan

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Has anyone tried to create a VM backed by a file that resides on a networked drive? I have a Macbook, and am generally running out of space. I plan to upgrade to an 802.11n router, and was curious if anyone had tried to install a VM using disk space on a networked drive.

Frankly, my biggest concern is parallels freezing if I lose network connection (which would be expected). Any thoughts on if that would corrupt the VM, or just break the connection?
 
Hi there,

I've been trying to create a VM on a NAS drive (Maxtor 1TB), but Parallels can't seem to create or use the HDD file. Did you get this working?

Cheers,
Martin
 
I'd bet that Parallels does fine because that NAS device is an OS X network storage device and Parallels is an OS X application. Windows, on the other hand, probably doesn't have any idea where to find it's bits once it's started up and so fails.
 
Hi there,

Parallels (both my old build and the new 3188) seems to be incapable of creating the HDD file. It complains about the filename being unacceptable, or the disk geometry being unreadable. I wonder if this is an issue of the NAS disk format? I'm pretty sure the NAS drive is running embedded Linux, but I don't know what filesystem it's using. I've been able to back up my existing HDD files to the drive, so it will definitely allow huge file sizes, but perhaps there's something in the way Parallels creates the HDD file that won't work on a Linux filesystem?

Cheers,
Martin
 
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