>>>>>Yah, after my last post I kind of figured that was the problem. Unfortunately I only have the one drive on this laptop.
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>>>>No travelling box with a disk-on-usb inside? I keep one for almost ten years now, and it's permanently on. The USB, being slower, doesn't really drive it too hard (please issue a pardon for the pun, recall the firing squad). I keep my music on it.
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>>>Thanks for the suggestion.
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>>Now that this made me think of it, perhaps your partition ain't that big - nowadays there are thumbdrives or SD cards with sufficient space to accommodate the file. May be just as fast as a HDD in a box - at the speed of USB.
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>From my experience, even a USB3 port are significantly slower then on board memory (SDD or Hard). I see this when I preform backups for files. Anyway, I have been think of creating a second (or more) partition(s) on my on board drive (if possible.) I have a 1TB drive but only am using less then 20% of it. No music, videos, or photos, not my thing. I am simply looking for a sandbox where I can test new applications, either mine or others. Any suggestions?

There may be one snag with what you may be thinking -- in particular licensing of the OS. If I'm not mistaken the license for the OS on the host computer can't be used for any of the VMs (i.e. the VM instances will need their own license).