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Have operating system, will travel: How to run virtual machines from a flash drive |
May 29, 2014
Most of the time, one operating system per computer is enough. But on occasion, you might want to boot up a second operating system for security reasons, testing purposes, or compatibility with specific software. Technical details typically restrict that alternate OS to a single PC, however. You can only install an OS in a single location after all.But using a fork of Oracle's popular VirtualBox virtualization software, known as Portable VirtualBox, you don't have to limit secondary operating systems to a single computer or boot it up separately from Windows. Instead, you can pack it onto a portable USB drive and load it up on any PC while Windows runs in the background, like a virtualized version of the Windows to Go option found in Windows 8 Enterprise.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2158677/have-operating-system-will-travel-how-to-run-virtual-machines-from-a-flash-drive.html#tk.rss_howto
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