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Hello,
I am looking for a virtual machine that may be installed on an USB stick as a portable application and that can be run afterwards on another Windows 2000/XP host PC without prior installation.
I found out that it is possible with QEMU manager (frontend to qemu) and the first experience is quite promising. But I have found some remarks in the Web that there may be serious problems if one is using the QEMU accelerator (kqemu).
Next I was reading about moka5. Their website states that it works only for Windows XP. Other sites claim that moka5 is build upon VMware player.
VMware player itself is not a portable application.
Now I am wondering whether it is possible to use Virtualbox as a portable application or (if not) whether it is difficult to make it portable.

I LOVE THAT SUGGESTION !!

The only observation I would give with portability is that when using a "guest host" (someone else's) windows box one does not always have admin rights.

So it would be nice if one could run a guest from USB without admin rights on windows or without root access on Linux/OSX.

A little late but... I did it, and I did a how-to but i'm french so it's in french... Good luck ! ^^
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/insta ... ur_externe

Now, I wanna know if someone find how to have VirtualBox for Linux on an external hard disk...

Unless I'm misunderstanding, you can't do what you described (in the first message of this thread) with VBox.

Yes, you can tell VBox to load VMs and VDIs from a removeable drive, but you can never "run on another host PC without prior installation" - you always need to install the VBox application on the host PC.

No you don't, I did it and i'm using it...

Shakipu wrote:No you don't, I did it and i'm using it...

Uh, my comment was addressed to the originator of this thread (DocWilliam), not to you. In fact I even indicated as much by including the phrase "in the first message of this thread") - though at that time I hadn't noticed how old this thread was that you had revived.