LittleEyes wrote:
zm99 wrote:
I've got an Intel iMac running OS X Lion, and the main hard drive is full. I'm using VMWare Fusion 5, and I want to install a virtual machine for Mac OS X 10.5 server onto a Western Digital USB 3.0 external hard drive. Is this possible?
I've properly formatted the USB 3.0 external hard drive as a startup drive using Disk Utility. However, when I try to install the virtual machine, the external drive does not show up in the list as a target (only the main hard drive is listed).
Thanks for any help.
Hi zm99,
Could you see your USB 3.0 hard drive on your Mac OS?
Obviously zm99 can see the USB 3.0 external drive from the Host OS X as he stated "I've properly formatted the USB 3.0 external hard drive as a startup drive using Disk Utility"! 
I could install VM to my USB 3.0 hard drive. Please the screenshot.
While I already mentioned in my first reply "You can however create the Virtual Machine Package on the USB Device and install Mac OS X or OS X to the virtual hard disk of the Virtual Machine thus not taking up any space on the internal storage device." nonetheless I do not believe that is what zm99 is trying to do. My read on his OP is that he's trying to install OS X directly to the USB external drive just as could be done from the Host although he's trying to do it in a Virtual Machine and that is not directly doable as it is from the Host. The exception to that would be if one used vmware-rawdiskCreator to create a meta-data .vmdk for the external disk and added it to the OS X Virtual Machine would would in turn install it to the USB external disk as a Raw Disk Device.