Run Live Linux directly from Windows using a virtual machine emulator
How to make VirtualBox Boot from a USB Flash Drive. This process will allow you to run your Portable Linux from the Flash Drive or external hard drive while still running from within a Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X Host. By default VirtualBox does not support USB Booting. However, you can make the VM …
Making VirtualBox Boot and Run from USB! Portable VirtualBox was an unofficial Portable Wrapper for Virtual Box, created by Micha. An improved version is also offered by Tibo, the author of the LiLi USB Creator. VirtualBox is officially a product of Oracle. It is an emulator or virtual machine. Often you’ll find it used to …
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How to Convert a Virtual Machine VHD VDI into a Bootable USB. The following covers the process of turning VirtualBox “VHD” (Virtual Hard Disk) Images or “VDI” (Virtual Disk) Images into Bootable Physical Disks. Aka: “Copy VHD to Disk”. This is extremely useful for situations when you would like to clone your VirtualBox Machine onto …
The following tutorial explains how we were able to Run Damn Small Linux in Windows using Qemu Emulation technology. Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a tiny Linux Operating System created by John Andrews that is based on a Knoppix 2.4 Kernel. The advantage of DSL is that it runs well on older and slower computers …
Run any ISO from Windows without rebooting. The following tutorial explains how to use Virtualbox to run Linux or any other bootable ISO from a portable USB flash device or elsewhere while still working within a running Windows. This process enables users to have both operating systems up and running at the same time eliminating …
Portable Ubuntu Remix for Windows (Pubuntu) is a project headed by Claudio Cacsar Sa¡nchez Tejeda that uses CoLinux (Cooperative Linux) to enable a user to run Ubuntu on top of Windows. CoLinux, a port of the Linux Kernel, is an open source virtual machine that works much like Qemu (some claim it is faster). Ubuntu …
