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Virtual Machine on Portable AppsZamolxisArt - October 4, 2009 - 1:57pm
Maybe Xen, or Microsoft Virtual Machine, or VMware Aniway it would be great to install your favorite OS on a stick into Portable Apps this way. ( categories: )
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This would be more useful on
This would be more useful on a portable HD, not a memory stick, due to the sizes of the files involved...
However, there is a launcher for virtual box
Search 'virtualbox portable' on google...(first link, would post the link here, but not sure if I'm allowed
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It downloads the virtual box software and runs it like the apps here...
“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!”Richard Feynman
Oh you mean this
Oh you mean this one?
http://www.vbox.me/
I wouldn't be worried about usb stick sizes.
http://www.corsair.com/products/voyagergt_128/default.aspx
Right now talking about Usb flash drives sizes becomes more of an excuse
mine is 16 Gb now that is small.
in 2 more years 128 will be the standard.
not the size but speed
is the question here.
Ther is virtual box portable and you can run from there what you want, but how long are you prepared to wait until ubuntu did boot up? The speed of the controllers in the sticks is very limited and often the flash chips are not very fast either. This is the limitation.
Otherwise google for usbuntu, this is complete vbox with ubuntu installation and test it. no practical use for that since all so slow and operating system needing read and write all the time is then so fragile it will last not for very long and the virtual machine is broken and you can start again with installation.
Then disk files on full installation are very big, thus reasonably the stick would have to be formated in ntfs to avoid the complexity of splitting the virtual drives into too many slices. This again is not very healthy for the stick and may bear other problems with rights etc sometimes.
From protable hard drive, well it may work somehow, but all is not portable because of all the drivers needed (admin rights needed to start portable virtual box)and also the maximum speed might be then limited only by the usb2 speed and by the controllers and flash chips in the usb sticks.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Speed is not an issue if you use the exFAT file system
Speed is not an issue if you use the exFAT file system on a USB stick rather then FAT32 and/or NTFS!
http://computersguide.blogspot.com/search/label/exFAT%20file%20system
different
this is misunderstanding in a way as what the above article is talking about. Readyboost is concept of supporting certain windows functions and has nothing to do with the actual read write speed by of the media. It is also not relevant if you have exFAT or ntfs or what ever, the speed of usb stick is given by the controller included in the device. Just very secondary it might be limited by the type of flash chips included and at higher speeds also by limits set by the usb serial protocol.
exFAT is just other virtual file system on the top of the flash file system which will not change just because someone decided to place other virtual system on the top of it.
in this above linked article I found:
>This file system is mainly designed for usb flash drives and other external devices in order to transfer files between computers and the devices in alot faster speed!<
which tells me that who ever did write this has probably no idea what it is all about, as virtual file system has nothing to do with physical properties of a serial communication protocol and power dissipation of hardware devices.
This is something like the recommendation to use leaded fuel in the car, this is more heavy, and therefore the car will stick better to the road in curves....
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Yes thats the one
Yes thats the one...vbox...
I was thinking more on the speed also...
Yes, running it from my portable HD, it asks for admin rights, although I am not sure if that is windows limiting the HD (because even things like copying files to it needs admin rights...) or if Virtualbox is asking for admin rights...
“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!”Richard Feynman
virtual box
need admin rights itself, since it needs to install drivers and this can be done in any case only with admin rights.
In the case of portable vbox, the attempt is done to remove the drivers at the end when portable vbox is closed. It looks that it does work, I did not check that so deeply myself however.
as for your portable hard drive: if you formated it ntfs and formated in a PC, then this might be problem. If you format it while extern (portable) there should be even in the case of ntfs formating with 'no security' and not needing rights later.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland