A poor man’s guide for creating iscsi targets without using external USB hard disks

A special need..
Those of you who have a need for exposing iscsi targets to other machines for discovery, but who do not want to invest in an external USB hard disk OR who do not want to have a USB external hard disk connected to a desktop 24×7, there is a better way of [...]

Virtualbox How to: Gotchas involved in making a USB external hard disk device work on windows host

Preface
Sometime back, I installed Openfiler on a external hard disk (manufacturer: Iomega)that I had at home (running Windows Vista Home Premium). This was meant to be a proof of concept and pretty soon, I had to bring it to office desktop (running Windows XP SP2) to make it work with some other virtualbox virtual machines [...]