Can I "play" an entire HD with a virtualization prog. like VMware?

[Pippolo]

At home I have my main PC: a notebook with Windows XP and tons of
programs, connected to the Internet via a 4Mbps/256Kbps ADSL.
At work in the office I have a secondary PC: a fixed PC with Windows
XP and my basic work programs, connected to Internet via an UMTS
384Kbps/64Kbps connection.
I often need to use my home main PC from work so I tried to use it
using Remote Desktop, at the usable speed of 256Kbps (the bottleneck
is my home ADSL uplink speed).
Using the remote desktop at 256Kbps is good but not sufficient for
prolonged use. I need more speed. I want to feel it like if I'm using
the local PC but moving my notebook from home to the work office each
day is not an acceptable solution because of the notebook weight.

MY IDEA is to move from home to the work office only my notebook HD
(120GB - 2,5") and "play" it, by attaching it to my work PC via USB
adaptor, inside a virtualization program like VMWARE.
I mean that I want to be able to boot the Windows XP that is inside my
notebook HD, seeing all its installed programs, from my work fixed PC
inside a (full-screen) window of a virtualization program like VMWARE.

IS IT POSSIBLE? is there a virtualization program (ex. VMWARE) that
can do this? if so, how?

Thanks in advance
Pippolo

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[Martin Mewes]

xpost & fup2 vmware.guest.misc

Hello,

"Pippolo" <spip...@spappolo.com> wrote:

>At home I have my main PC: a notebook with Windows XP and tons of
>programs, connected to the Internet via a 4Mbps/256Kbps ADSL.

If you are using Windows XP, why do you post to a Windows 2000 group?

>IS IT POSSIBLE? is there a virtualization program (ex. VMWARE) that
>can do this? if so, how?

It is possible, but I think it is not easy enough to describe it via the
group.

The main problem you will have is that VMware has a different set of
hardware, so you need to setup the real XP with two hardware profiles. One
for the real machine and one for the virtualization.

Then you should setup the real machine for you to be able to select between
the different hardware profiles.
Freundliche Grüße / kind regards

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