Portable Virtual Machine Recommendation

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I want to set-up a virtual machine on a pen drive, but I don't know what VM software might be portable or if it's possible to run virtual machine software without installation. Just for starters, it would be good if it will run any Windows host, but if it runs another host, even better.

Best Answer

There's Portable VirtualBox - found it via this forum post (German forum, little English there.) Readme is included - click the Description folder on the site.

However, do not rely on something like this to be easy to do and/or work properly in all (or most, for that matter) scenarios. All virtualization software requires host kernel level drivers to be present, and that's hard to do portably if you actually want a stable system. See the forum posts for user experiences.

Also, please be aware that running VMs can be very taxing for your flash disk - VMs generate a lot of write I/O.

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