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Old December 16th 17, 11:13 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
mike[_10_]
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Default 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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Old December 16th 17, 11:39 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ant[_2_]
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Default 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.


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Old December 17th 17, 07:18 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
mike[_10_]
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Default Is there a REALLY portable virtualbox?

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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Old December 17th 17, 12:58 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JJ[_11_]
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Default Is there a REALLY portable virtualbox?

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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