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The VM appears inactive when connected to the external drive.

The VM appears inactive when connected to the external drive.

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06-01-2025, 06:46 AM
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I attempted to set up Xubuntu on an external drive via VMware. When I didn’t select a physical hard drive as the installation medium, the virtual machine ran smoothly. But if I opted for the “use physical hard drive” setting, I encountered a blank screen with just a cursor. Has anyone faced this problem before? My host system is a laptop equipped with 4 cores, 8 threads, and 12GB of RAM.
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06-01-2025, 06:46 AM #1

I attempted to set up Xubuntu on an external drive via VMware. When I didn’t select a physical hard drive as the installation medium, the virtual machine ran smoothly. But if I opted for the “use physical hard drive” setting, I encountered a blank screen with just a cursor. Has anyone faced this problem before? My host system is a laptop equipped with 4 cores, 8 threads, and 12GB of RAM.

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