Objective To use a whole physical (USB-) disk as VMDK (virtual machine disk) for VWware Fusion[1], allowing me to install an OS (OpenSolaris) from within VWware Fusion, plug the disk as device into a new computer and boot from there. Motivation I want to upgrade my Xen dom0 from Centos to OpenSolaris. My server provides important services (Internet gateway, mp3-repository, this site, …) to me and