Unique Use case...

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by MichelleF1, Sep 21, 2015.

  1. MichelleF1

    MichelleF1 Bit poster

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    OK I have sort of a unique use case, and I haven't quite sorted how to do what I want to do... Let me describe the setup...

    System A (the travel/work system):parallels Windows 7 VM on a MacBook. Windows VM uses Macbook user documents folders for its own user documents folder. (this part is the tricky part)... MacBook is an Core i5m at 1.2 GHz or so... nice hardware, weak processor.

    System B (The other work/RDP terminal for Windows on a big display system)Parallels on an iMac.... 3.? GHz i7... faster than the macbook...

    What I would like to do...

    Connect the MacBook to the iMac as an external drive using USBC to thunderbolt or whatever fast connect I can use... OS X seems to support this by letting me boot the macbook as a drive. Then on the iMac, load/run the Windows 7 VM from the MacBook/drive... I should get the additional processing speed and if I change the config before running on the iMac, more memory and more CPU threads also...

    The hitch... How do I get the VM from the MacBook to still use the Documents folder on the MacBook drive, even though its running on the iMac, so that when I pack it up and travel somewhere with just he MacBook all the work I have done while running on the iMac is still on the MacBooks drives in the proper folders (Documents and other shared folders)?

    Please share your thoughts on how/if this can be done? If it can't, could I make it a feature request?
     

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