From: Daniel James on
In article <72kpn.52065$Ym4.41180(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 wrote:
> What I really need to do often is to keep the desktop running
> and then run something like virtualbox and let virtualbox boot
> off the eSata drive.

I think this is one of those things that is easier to do with VMware
than with VirtualBox ... I haven't seen a way to get VBox to boot a
guest from a physical disk.

The easiest approach, if you favour VBox, may be to create a virtual
disk on your eSATA disk ... otherwise try VMware.

Cheers,
Daniel.