Inside the virtual machine or on an external hard drive in XP?
Inside the virtual machine or on an external hard drive in XP?
Why? I need to use a specialized diagnostic tool for BMW called DIS. It functions as an operating system, so it requires its own virtual machine. The challenge is that I don’t have the exact BMW device to set it up, so I’m planning to run it on my laptop instead. The issue is that INPA (drivers and settings) must connect with the OBD II reader, which has been unreliable on XP, worse on Windows 7, and I won’t risk installing INPA directly on my system due to the complicated setup (folders everywhere, registry changes). The ideal solution would be to run it directly on Windows XP rather than using a virtual machine.
Q: 1. Is it possible to run Windows XP on an external HDD? What steps would I need to follow for installation?
2. If not, can I run a VM inside another VM?
You might attempt to run a VM within another VM, but there seems to be no justification beyond hardware constraints for it not functioning.
Yeah you can virtualise inside of a VM, there will be a much larger overhead but since this is more of an embedded OS it's not gonna hurt. VM's inside of VMs are normal