Virtual Ubuntu on Flash Drive
I have a 80GB portable Hard Drive that I would like to install a Ubuntu virtual machine on. It has to be completely independent- meaning that the virtual machine will successfully boot on any Windows XP or greater machine that I hook it up to.
I have tried Qemu, but have note been able to get Synaptic to work correctly and therefore have not been able to install the program that I need and is Linux-only. (Kalzium, which is a KDE periodic table.)
I tried simply copying the files from my VirtualBox directory to my hard drive but I get a COM error when I move to a different machine and it won't even load.
I am looking for a solution that will allow me a completely hardware independent Ubuntu Virtual Machine that will run on Windows XP with the ability to install Kalzium through Synaptic.
I am almost ready to give up on this... and I don't give up very well. Please help!
Thanks a million.
Ian
EDIT- Just to clarify, it does NOT have to be bootable, but it does need to be able to run on any Windows XP machine.
Re: Virtual Ubuntu on Flash Drive
If I am understanding this problem correctly you want a virtual machine that you can run on both windows and linux is that right?
If that is the case VMware server is your best bet. I can give you a good tutorial on installing it because I did it once on Ubuntu 7.04
Re: Virtual Ubuntu on Flash Drive
Re: Virtual Ubuntu on Flash Drive
Sorry for not posting this sooner- I have been pretty obe lately.
I found my solution. Since VB requires the windows registry, I simply installed a program called MojoPac onto the portable drive. It is basically a program that makes a mini-XP desktop on your portable drive. (The host machine must be running XP for this to work, which was fine in this circumstance.)
So I simply entered my mini-desktop, installed VB in the mini desktop, pointed it to the .vdi on my portable drive and it worked! Yay!
I hope this helps someone who was in the same position as I was.
-Ian
