[Novalug] VirtualBox flash drive (Jon LaBadie)

Roger W. Broseus rogerb@bronord.com
Mon Mar 26 19:01:50 EDT 2012


Why not just boot directly into Linux? Avoid the overhead of the host system, etc.

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Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email: RogerB@bronord.com
     Web Site: www.bronord.com

On 3/26/12 4:44 PM, "Jon LaBadie" <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
> 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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