Despite the fact that I am more and more use various online services for the solution of many problems on a flash drive, I always have a set of essential portable-applications that run without installation on any computer. The developers themselves often spread portable versions of their products.
In the end, now everyone can download a wonderful tool Cameyo(www.cameyo.com) and make a portable-version of virtually any application. The aim is achieved by the so-called virtualization application is put into a special container in which you want to emulate his work branch registry files on disk, etc. Alas, this way you can virtualize a few. When I needed a portable virtual machine on which to run guest operating systems, it appears that VirtualBox does not work under Cameyo. The official website of the appropriate version of the virtual machine was not, however, on the forum I found a reference on an interesting project - Portable-VirtualBox (www.vbox.me).
The purpose of development - to get VirtualBox to work without having to install and run from anywhere, such as a USB-drive. Interestingly, the utility is written entirely in scripts AutoIt (all the sources lie in the open bit.ly/rQ0n7Z), but because of this, however, and does not look very elegant. But the main thing - the result. So, download the application (I have a Portable-VirtualBox_v4.1.6-Starter_v6.4.8-Win_all.exe) and run it - the program prompts you to select the path to unpack. You can then run the Portable-VirtualBox.exe. All the settings set automatically, fix something by hand is not required. Appeared window - a so-called launcher. He appears once and is designed to download the latest distribution are VirtualBox and extract the files from there. Interestingly, at this stage files can also pack a special way, that-they take up less space on a USB-flash drive (although with the current size of flash drives is hardly relevant). Click on the button «Download installation files of VirtualBox», select the Decimal system (eg, «Extract the files for 32-Bit system») and wait until the launcher will do the trick. Adapted to the way the installer for the system (corrected desired options in the config VirtualBox.xml), the binary Portable-VirtualBox.exe need to start again. Voila - we should have is a full VirtualBox. Without any installation in the system. In the system tray icon will appear in VirtualBox, you can use to manage the virtual machine and customize it further. In the guest operating system defaults and USB, and network. But in order to release the guest OS to the external network (Internet), will have to spend some additional manipulation. In the tray must select «Settings? Network » and enable «Start VirtualBox with network support». Next you need to restart the Portable-VirtualBox and agree to install the driver. The process is structured so that when you shut down the virtual machine everything that was installed in the system is removed. Files guest OS is reasonable to place directly on the flash drive with VirtualBox. I have this system alone, so it can run at once, with no additional manipulation by specifying the parameters of its name: Portable-VirtualBox.exe "leopard" Given that the virtual machine does not always have power, and in a mode «Save the state» , its running very quickly.
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