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Portable USB Flash Thumb Drive VM?
Posted: 22. Aug 2009, 01:09
by s0me0ne
I was curious if its possible to run a VM off of a flash drive? I didnt see anything that said we could, but that would be awesome if its possible without having to install virtualbox on other machines and just carry some EXE or executable that would just run the VM.
Re: Portable USB Flash Thumb Drive VM?
Posted: 22. Aug 2009, 01:41
by dmcgraw
You can store a VM on a flash drive, but you still need to have VirtualBox installed on the host machine.
Re: Portable USB Flash Thumb Drive VM?
Posted: 22. Aug 2009, 10:26
by Sasquatch
There is such a version, but we don't do anything with it, because it's not officially from Sun. Asking where to find it will result in an official warning, or at worst case, a ban for a limited period.
Re: Portable USB Flash Thumb Drive VM?
Posted: 22. Aug 2009, 15:52
by s0me0ne
ok, I was not aware of this.
The only program that I've read that can do this is QEMU (another open source vm program) but I didn't find any docs on their website on how to do it.
I'm getting sick of vmware making me fill out tons of forms just to download their products and having to install 3 of them just to do what virtualbox seems it can do with 1 program.
vmware server - to create/edit vms (2.x has a horrible web UI)
vmware converter - to convert vms from other formats (dont believe it supports virtualbox files)
vmware player - lightweight vm app (have this on a seperate machine, so I dont have to load the previous 2 big programs on it)