![]() The 0.01% chance it will not work is whether Ubuntu 16.04 will be able to handle the change in hardware (especially the video drivers) as it will change from the physical hardware of the Mac hardware to virtual ones of the VM so the xorg desktop configuration might get messed up unless it handles it all automatically and it should boot up fine. This makes the VM work with EFI virtual firmware as BIOS cannot boot with USB disks.ĮDIT: The virtual firmware has to be EFI because the external SSD was created with EFI.ĩ9.99% chance this will work. For simplicity specify "fulldevice" in the step 3 of the KB article (assuming that the external SSD only has Ubuntu and nothing else). I would think you should just change the references to ide to scsi since scsi is the default when you create an Ubuntu 64-bit VM. You then create a raw disk VMDK and edit the vmx following this KB as a reference. You create a custom virtual machine specifying Ubuntu 64-bit. This would be akin to how Bootcamp Partitions are handled. There is a third way to try to do it that is to create a raw disk VMDK based on the USB SSD. As mentioned, back up the external SSD contents if there are any important files you don't want to lose (in the event this process goes awry). Have a good read-through/understanding of the KB before doing this. ![]() What you will do after creating the raw disk VMDK is to replace the "Virtual Disk.vmdk" with the "rawDiskFile.vmdk" and add the other lines If you open up vmx configuration file of this newly-created custom VM (assuming that you didn't change the "Bus type"), you will see the lines. ![]() ![]() You don't need to change disk size/allocation as this new virtual disk will be ignored with the edit of the vmx configuration file. Effectively, this VM is like a shell (again very much similar to how Fusion handles Bootcamp partitions). ![]() You specify "create a new virtual disk" and then choose "Customize Settings" (so that it does not power up) and also allows you to change the memory and processor settings. ![]()
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