Store Virtual Machines on NFS ?

Hi,

i want to store my Windows-XP and Windows-7 VM's on NFS (Nas4Free), because i have not enough Disk Space left. I tried it with Parallels-9 and it works.
Can i do it so or is there something special to consider?


Alex

 

Well you should be able to do that without too many issues, other then a performance hit. With HDs pretty cheap now it almost now worth doing unless you have no choice. I used to use a USB HD on my laptop before I put in the 1tb drive in it.

 

You could also try keeping the VM file (.pvm) on your local machine but move the much larger virtual hard disk files elsewhere. Usually the virtual hard disk files (.hdd) are stored inside the .pvm but you can manually move them out and update the hard disk configuration to point to the new locations.

The .pvm file also contains log files, configuration files, snapshot files and virtual memory files.