Anyone tried mojopac?
Seems like a nice idea, personally didn't care for the cutsie interface.
Would prefer a "plain" bar I can customize myself if I wanted to.
Also the options on the bar seemed incomplete and counter-intuitive.
Anyone else have an opinion or experience?
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i have it and do use it, alongside my portable apps.
It does come in handy for the microsoft project and some share programs that i use and can take with me anywhere
i see it as a supplement for the programs that i cant get as a portable app
Graham Yates
What is "MojoPac"?...
What does it do?...
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MojoPac is kind of a cross between Ceedo and VMWare
it gives you a portable virtual environment to run programs from.
http://www.mojopac.com/
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Thx, d00d!...
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directly from http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/what/:
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I found it slow, myself. You really need a fast, big external hard drive to run it. (I can't say how slow as their EULA forbids any kind of benchmarking, which is never a good sign). The software you use on it won't be optimized for slow/small drives either... so you, again, you need a big fast drive. And installing some regular software into a virtual machine is illegal.
The biggest issue is that it requires admin rights... which means you can only run it on PCs that you have full control over. So, you'd have the ability to install any software you want on those PCs anyway without needing mojopac. Because of the admin rights issue, you can forget about using it in hotel business centers, libraries, net cafes, schools or offices. And it's XP only. No Win2K/98/etc. No Vista (though they say it's coming). And it's $50.
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Everyone's best bet is to wait for the next version of Lapwing. AFAIK Steve's got it sorted.
On that subject, you still haven't emailed me!
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What is Lapwing??????
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See http://liberta-project.org/download for the current version, but Steve's working on a new version.
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There is no description for lapwing there, or any of the others.
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MojoPac works very well if you want to be tied down to an OS. If you want to be able to run any app on an XP, then it is very good. But, MojoPac is an independent virtual layer. You can't expect to use MojoPac for something like desktop repair through remote access. Ceedo also relies on it's own virtual layer. But, Ceedo does allow many more features for direct run software than MojoPac. But when it comes right down to it, if you want an all around virtually portable platform then PortableApps.com is it!! You can run the software for any reason. You can even copy a program to a remote pc with (for example- "UltraVNC"), which hopefully coming soon to PortableApps.com, and run it and then delete it without any problems! PortableApps.com is kinda like a mix between MojoPac and Ceedo without a universal installer. When PortableApps.com offers a little more flexible start menu (kinda like Pstart) and, an installer like Argo, they will be the best by far!!! Oh did I say will be, they are and are ever so advancing the portable world!!! Thanks John and company!
I thought I'd throw my 2c in here. I've been running MojoPac for 2 days now, and I have to say I really like the idea. I'm using it along side my suite of PortableApps. Certain things like Firefox, Roboform, NSIS, AutoIt3, and foobar2000 I have installed in MojoPac, becuase I think they're easier to use that way. Others like OpenOfficePortable, Spybot, and NOD32Portable I'm using the portable version so I can use it in the MojoPac environment as well as the Host environment.
I run everything from a TrueCrypt volume anyway, so the admin rights issue is moot. Performance is pretty good. Some things like Firefox and BAT files (for some weird reason) are slower to start up, but performance while running is similar to normal.
Some of the cons are that you cannot install certain device drivers. For example I could not install the OpenVPN TAP adapter (it said I needed the enterprise version for that), but I could run Sysinternals ProcessExplorer which DOES install a driver. I got a prompt for that one, but was allowed to continue. However I installed the TAP adapter on the Host machine, and I was able to access it and connect my VPN inside MojoPac. This does affect the Host as well however (since the adapter resides on the host). I also can't install Sandboxie for the same reason. I didn't get a warning when I tried because Sandboxie uses a custom utility to install the driver (I think), but it fried the MojoPac install and I had to start over.
An interesting point is that MojoPac allows somewhat transparent access to the WINDOWS directories, but in a read-only way. You can see everything from the host system, but you cannot modify it ON THE HOST. You CAN modify it in the MojoPac environment. For example, if you create a file 'test.txt' on the Host with 'hello world', open it in MojoPac and edit it to say 'a new world', then on the Host it will remain unchanged and in MojoPac will be your edited copy. Neat. If you delete the MojoPac copy, it is replaced with the original file from the Host. In this way you can install and upgrade software in MojoPac, no modify the host machine, yet keep your updated system files with you. Even stuff like Environment Variables work, as long as you set them as System variables. User Env Vars don't seem to load automatically unless you enter the dialog and OK out of it (probably a bug).
Just about any software installation will work (even though they only guarantee software they've tested). I've even installed some windows specific stuff that works - Directory Opus, Flash, Shockwave, Java, Windows Media Player 11, OpenVPN (see note above), Registry Workshop, CCleaner, 7-Zip, NSIS, AutoIt3.
I really like the degree of separation from the Host system and being able to configure things like Env Vars, context menus, and shell extensions. It's kinda the best of both worlds. And switching between the Host and MojoPac is a one button affair, and is very fast. You can't manipulate the Host from within MojoPac, but you can do anything you want with MojoPac from the Host. So transferring files back and forth is as easy as switching to the Host and doing your thing.
I'm using MojoPac Freedom (which is free), version 1.8. Skeptics should give it a shot. I think it has its place in the portable world. It's certainly not a replacement or really even competition for PortableApps, but a nice compliment, at least for me.