Author Topic: Portable Virtual Machine? (Read 1362 times)

Tyler66 · March 25, 2011, 10:10:11 AM

I need a portable Virtual Machine for school, because the school uses an old Windows XP likely upgraded from Windows 9x. I cannot to the slightest work on the computers due to 1 GB > of RAM for just making documents and getting internet resources.

I have searched for Portable Virtual Machine programs, I got a "HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Generic" because of it.

Does anyone know a portable Virtual Machine program for a USB Flash Drive or SD Card? I just plan to use Windows 3.11 or Windows NT 3.5 on it, possibly OS/2.

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IkeTheGeneric · March 25, 2011, 10:11:02 AM

Quote from: Tyler66 on March 25, 2011, 10:10:11 AM

HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Generic

Oops.

Sorry.

Tyler66 · March 25, 2011, 10:11:42 AM

Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on March 25, 2011, 10:11:02 AM

Oops.

Sorry.

Why so generic?

IkeTheGeneric · March 25, 2011, 10:12:24 AM

Want to know how I got these scars?

I didn't get any scars, I'm perfectly normal.

DontCare4Free · March 25, 2011, 10:14:41 AM

Boot from sd/external hdd?

LeetZero · March 25, 2011, 10:18:09 AM

Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on March 25, 2011, 10:12:24 AM

Want to know how I got these scars?

I didn't get any scars, I'm perfectly normal.

You need to smile more.

* LeetZero cuts the edges of your mouth so it looks like you're smiling~

HOLY stuff..

..there's blood everywhere.

Tyler66 · March 25, 2011, 10:18:53 AM

Quote from: DontCare4Free on March 25, 2011, 10:14:41 AM

Boot from sd/external hdd?

I did have thoughts about doing that.
Might use it as a last resort.

EDIT:
I don't want the Administrators claiming I forgeted up the computer. So, no. A Virtual Machine that works within a window will work.

Monocle · March 25, 2011, 11:30:03 AM

Can you install VMWare onto a flashdrive and then install the OS there aswell?

Dunno if that'd work but yeah.

Tyler66 · March 25, 2011, 11:31:26 AM

Quote from: Monocle on March 25, 2011, 11:30:03 AM

Can you install VMWare onto a flashdrive and then install the OS there aswell?

Dunno if that'd work but yeah.

If it did work, it would save alot of time because I already have Virtual Machines running from VMware.

EDIT: I will try it.

DontCare4Free · March 25, 2011, 02:31:56 PM

Quote from: Monocle on March 25, 2011, 11:30:03 AM

Can you install VMWare onto a flashdrive and then install the OS there aswell?

Dunno if that'd work but yeah.

I think VMWare uses the registry...
Not sure though.

otto-san · March 25, 2011, 02:35:55 PM

install virtualbox onto a flash drive.

Tyler66 · March 25, 2011, 03:06:16 PM

Quote from: otto-san on March 25, 2011, 02:35:55 PM

install virtualbox onto a flash drive.

VirtualBox's virtual machines hog space without compression.

DontCare4Free · March 25, 2011, 03:33:03 PM

Quote from: Tyler66 on March 25, 2011, 03:06:16 PM

VirtualBox's virtual machines hog space without compression.

That depends on what you want to run.
If you wanna run MS-DOS/Win3.1 then they should usually only use about 200MB for the virtual HDD.