Can I copy (share) a virtual disk between VMs?

[mikeh]

I run VirtualBox on two windows 7 system; One at home and one at work. The guest OS is Windows XP, required to run a legacy CAD application.

As my actual data is quite small ( a few tens of MB ) I was thinking of creating a second virtual disk, stored on a USB drive.

Is it reasonable to then use this USB drive in both PCs? Having my data on a small virtual disk also makes backing it up easier.

If there is a more appropriate way to solve this problem without having to move Gigabytes of data around, I'd love to hear about it.


Mike.

[mpack]

Possibly, but why so complicated? Just create a shared folder on the USB drive and store your stuff in that. Yes, shared folders can be located on removable drives.

[mikeh]

And there we have the more appropriate way )

Thanks, of course that make far more sense, and my data is visible natively in other host systems.

Many thanks.

Mike