Solved Stand alone Partitioner as a VM

Hi folks
not sure why not many do this but unless you directly need to modify the windows partition itself (or the running HOST OS) why not run a stand alone partitioner as a VM, and simply pass any USB attached disk to it as a physical USB device e.g by re-direct USB device or as a physical USB, and internal HDD partitions as physical disks.

Works a treat --using GPARTED here with a 450GB external USB attached to the VM.



The VM config :



Saves lots of times messing about with booting stand alone partitioners. I know HYPER-V hosts can attach USB and physical disks / partitions as well as VMWare too. Simply set boot from the iso image, and even if the VM requires Disk storage - you can just allocate it a tiny amount - it's not used anyway.

Gparted is particularly good as it handles almost any file system known to man, copies / resizes partitions, and on boot you can select language and keyboard.

Cheers
jimbo