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totem
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portable vmware player

You can create a portable vwmare player to bring in a key or USB pendrive? There is a working group to create the vmware player portable ...

It would be interesting to bring our machines in a virtual memory

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continuum
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Don't understand what you are asking - please try again


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I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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totem
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Is easy.

There is some version of portable vmware or portable player for memories usb "memorystick" ?

There are some project or working group working on it?

It could create a working group to create a portable vmware.

It would be interesting to bring in a memorystick or memory usb on vmware with our favorite virtual machine.

Greetings

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continuum
Immortal
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Hi

I make something like that - look at my moa-project.

It allows to create a USB-stick which boots into BartPE and then can start a VM of your choice


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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NNy2k
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Very nice information and site! I'm building my memory drive now (8gb thumbdrive)!! :smileycool:

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continuum
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I still prefer booting from CD and then loading into RAM. Then I use VMs from USB-disks

USB-thumbdrives boot on one box but maybe not on the next - CDs boot almost everywhere


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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mikenic
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Hi folks. One other thing to consider... Using a thumb drive allows you to make changes on the fly where booting from CD does not. I've expermented on both, being a hack (of sorts), I prefer the thumbdrive. Each has its pros(CD=quicker and as noted, boots from just about any machine as long as they have the memory) & cons (CD's are limited in space, no changes to either Bart's config or updating the VM). All depending on how you intend to use it I suppose.

Cool!

M

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dave_english
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Yes, Moa is good.

It is also possible to builld a vmware player into an Ubuntu Live disk

(Allthough they can't run your VM:)

You might also want to look at MokaFive, its proprietary but based on VMware I think & allows writing user filesystem data back to the USB.

Also there is Qemu-Puppy, which will either boot Linux or run it in Qemu, again writing user filesystem data back to the USB while tryimg to limit flash writes.

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