Boot Camp from an external HDD?

[jgw1283]

I have an 08 MBP and want to experiment with boot camp/vm ware fusion. Do I have to install a copy of OS X on the external before I can do windows?

 

[w00t951]

I have an 08 MBP and want to experiment with boot camp/vm ware fusion. Do I have to install a copy of OS X on the external before I can do windows?

I'm not sure what you mean by "external." Boot Camp is installed alongside your existing installation of OS X, and virtual machines like Fusion run inside your OS X installation as a program.

 

[jgw1283]

I dont want to repartition my internal HD, do I need to install another copy of OS X on the USB external HDD in order to run VM Ware Fusion or reboot and run boot camp?

I don't have enough HD space on my internal for a windows install

 

[revenent]

VMware fusion allows you to run windows or any other OS alongside your existing Mac OS without the need to reboot.

If using VMware or Parallels, you can have the image installed on an external HDD and run the OS from there. This is my current setup to run Server 2008, Redhat, and Windows 7 Professional for my test bed.

 

[Dekard]

If you want to reboot and play games and windows apps without booting into Mac OSX, you will need bootcamp, there aren't any easy ways to use bootcamp with an external drive.

(although I have two SSD's, one with bootcamp one with Mac OSX both internal)

 

[striker33]

Wrong section.

Also further posts on the topic here: https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=15112885#post15112885
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=15168679&posted=1#post15168679