Dale Komai over at the Macsolvers blog has a great post up about how to access an external firewire drive from a virtual machine on VMware Fusion.
Even though VMware Fusion doesn’t currently support firewire pass-through, such that a virtual machine can’t “see” a firewire device as an actual firewire device, unlike how USB devices will show up to the virtual machine, there are workarounds for certain cases, this being one.
The way that Dale does it, like a lot of our users, is to set up the external firewire drive as a shared folder, using VMware Fusion’s “shared folders” feature.
Check out his post to learn more about how to use an external firewire even from inside your Windows virtual machine.
