[Novalug] VirtualBox flash drive
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Mon Mar 26 16:44:56 EDT 2012
Three things came together to stimulate this post.
1. Various discussions on booting linux from a USB thumb drive
2. Best Buy having a sale on SanDisk drives that stick out
only a quarter of an inch
3. Seeing a few articles about putting a portable VirtualBox
onto a USB thumb drive and running linux as a guest
It would be nice to carry around a persistant copy of a linux
system. I see pros and cons about the approaches in 1&3. For
example, if I'm going to use someone's computer, would they be
happy about me shutting down their system and possibly mucking
with their BIOS to boot from a USB stick? On the other hand,
I think using a VirtualBox approach would be specific to the
OS. Or could multiple VB's (ones for linux, windows, and mac
hosts) be installed but all share a single guest linux?
Has anyone used the VB approach? Comments on it?
Jon
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