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New Opensource virtual machine: VirtualBox

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dyce
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New Opensource virtual machine: VirtualBox

I haven't tried this out yet for portability, but it is open source and it may be better then QEMU. Lets see how portable it is next. hopefully it doesn't use drivers. although it does allow you to use USB devices in the guest OS without installing the drivers in the host os. i think qemu might do this, but two is better than one.

www.virtualbox.org

neddyfreddy
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Any word on this?

I am very interested in a portable virtual server platform. Does any one know how portable this could be? Would it be feasible to install virtualbox and all of its guest OSs entirely on the USB drive, just plug it in and vioala! ?

I am going to check out the software as-is and see how good it is. If it can be made portable I would be willing to make a generous donation to enable this.

Happy porting!

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I don't know ...

I don't know if it's portable or not but the product rocks indeed.
Unfortunately, no "Shared Folders" on VirtualBox OSE Sad

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WOW really nice virtual machince!

but sadly not portable. maybe contact the developers ask them to change it to work portably. Since it uses the registry and also registers dlls. It works via Ring0 (Kernal Mode) WOW

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