[Novalug] VirtualBox flash drive

[Brandon Saxe]

I use an Arch Linux distro on flash drive with VirtualBox. I then attach 
an eSATA or USB 3 disk (Seagate GoFlex) and run the machines from there.

Arch bootstraps VirtualBox and my disks are on the large drive. Worked 
for me to run my own stuff on a locked down client laptop. I didn't want 
to break their stuff, so I would boot off flash to do my thing. Not sure 
why they hadn't locked down the boot options/order or the USB/eSATA 
port, but that's another story.



On 3/26/2012 4:55 PM, Jason Kohles wrote:
> VirtualBox has to integrate with the host OS in order to integrate with
> things like the network stack and hardware interfaces, so while you could
> put the linux, windows and mac versions all on the same memory stick, it
> wouldn't be versions of VirtualBox that you run from the flash drive, you
> would be carrying around installers and installing VirtualBox on whatever
> machine you were on and then running your guest from it.
>
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