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Is there a REALLY portable virtualbox?
Is there a REALLY portable virtualbox?
Objective is to be able to run a program in the future on any machine with any OS. The obvious selection is portable virtualbox from vbox.me. I'm running windows 7 ultimate. I have a virtualbox virtual machine that runs windows7 and my application. I installed portable virtualbox to a thumb drive. Copied the virtual machine to the thumb drive. Won't run because it has a conflicting uuid. It's not clear why the file on the thumb drive conflicts with a different file of the same name on the hard drive. It's a different machine that shouldn't be able to see the files on the hard drive. There seems to be some cross-contamination between the portable virtual box on the thumb drive and the virtualbox that is installed on the hard drive. To fix that I have to use the virtualbox on the hdd to change the uuid of the copy, because the utility required doesn't exist in portable virtualbox. I did a lot of googling and futzing around and finally got portable virtualbox to execute my virtual machine on the thumb drive, but I'm not sure I could repeat the process. Performance is adequate. All is good. Take the thumb drive to a different machine and it can't find the .vdi file. Turns out that the drive letter assigned to the thumb drive by the creation machine is already used on this machine, so it assigns a different drive letter to the thumb drive and it can't find the .vdi file. There's a virtual media manager, but it doesn't show the ..vdi file and there's no obvious way to map it into the portable virtualbox setup. Plug the thumb drive into a computer that assigns the same drive letter and it all works fine. I'm stuck. Googling suggests that they removed the requirement for the same drive letter years ago, but I'm using the August 2017 version and it don't seem to work. Anybody made this work so I can plug the thumb drive into any target computer and have it just work no matter which drive letter is assigned to the thumb drive? I'm not interested in making ANY changes to the target computer. It might not be my computer, I may not have credentials to run it, etc. I want to make changes to the thumb drive required to make it just work in ANY target machine that can run portable virtualbox. |
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Is there a REALLY portable virtualbox?
Maybe post in https://forums.virtualbox.org ?
mike wrote: Is there a REALLY portable virtualbox? Objective is to be able to run a program in the future on any machine with any OS. The obvious selection is portable virtualbox from vbox.me. I'm running windows 7 ultimate. I have a virtualbox virtual machine that runs windows7 and my application. I installed portable virtualbox to a thumb drive. Copied the virtual machine to the thumb drive. Won't run because it has a conflicting uuid. It's not clear why the file on the thumb drive conflicts with a different file of the same name on the hard drive. It's a different machine that shouldn't be able to see the files on the hard drive. There seems to be some cross-contamination between the portable virtual box on the thumb drive and the virtualbox that is installed on the hard drive. To fix that I have to use the virtualbox on the hdd to change the uuid of the copy, because the utility required doesn't exist in portable virtualbox. I did a lot of googling and futzing around and finally got portable virtualbox to execute my virtual machine on the thumb drive, but I'm not sure I could repeat the process. Performance is adequate. All is good. Take the thumb drive to a different machine and it can't find the .vdi file. Turns out that the drive letter assigned to the thumb drive by the creation machine is already used on this machine, so it assigns a different drive letter to the thumb drive and it can't find the .vdi file. There's a virtual media manager, but it doesn't show the .vdi file and there's no obvious way to map it into the portable virtualbox setup. Plug the thumb drive into a computer that assigns the same drive letter and it all works fine. I'm stuck. Googling suggests that they removed the requirement for the same drive letter years ago, but I'm using the August 2017 version and it don't seem to work. Anybody made this work so I can plug the thumb drive into any target computer and have it just work no matter which drive letter is assigned to the thumb drive? I'm not interested in making ANY changes to the target computer. It might not be my computer, I may not have credentials to run it, etc. I want to make changes to the thumb drive required to make it just work in ANY target machine that can run portable virtualbox. -- Quote of the Week: "I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody." --Kiri Te Kanawa Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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On 12/16/2017 2:39 PM, Ant wrote:
Maybe post in https://forums.virtualbox.org ? to quote: There is a modified version called portable virtualbox, but it is not supported by Oracle or by this forum. mike wrote: Is there a REALLY portable virtualbox? Objective is to be able to run a program in the future on any machine with any OS. The obvious selection is portable virtualbox from vbox.me. I'm running windows 7 ultimate. I have a virtualbox virtual machine that runs windows7 and my application. I installed portable virtualbox to a thumb drive. Copied the virtual machine to the thumb drive. Won't run because it has a conflicting uuid. It's not clear why the file on the thumb drive conflicts with a different file of the same name on the hard drive. It's a different machine that shouldn't be able to see the files on the hard drive. There seems to be some cross-contamination between the portable virtual box on the thumb drive and the virtualbox that is installed on the hard drive. To fix that I have to use the virtualbox on the hdd to change the uuid of the copy, because the utility required doesn't exist in portable virtualbox. I did a lot of googling and futzing around and finally got portable virtualbox to execute my virtual machine on the thumb drive, but I'm not sure I could repeat the process. Performance is adequate. All is good. Take the thumb drive to a different machine and it can't find the .vdi file. Turns out that the drive letter assigned to the thumb drive by the creation machine is already used on this machine, so it assigns a different drive letter to the thumb drive and it can't find the .vdi file. There's a virtual media manager, but it doesn't show the .vdi file and there's no obvious way to map it into the portable virtualbox setup. Plug the thumb drive into a computer that assigns the same drive letter and it all works fine. I'm stuck. Googling suggests that they removed the requirement for the same drive letter years ago, but I'm using the August 2017 version and it don't seem to work. Anybody made this work so I can plug the thumb drive into any target computer and have it just work no matter which drive letter is assigned to the thumb drive? I'm not interested in making ANY changes to the target computer. It might not be my computer, I may not have credentials to run it, etc. I want to make changes to the thumb drive required to make it just work in ANY target machine that can run portable virtualbox. |
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On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:13:45 -0800, mike wrote:
Is there a REALLY portable virtualbox? Officially? No. But there's a tool to download the official VirtualBox then make it a portable version. http://www.vbox.me/ |
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