[Novalug] Virtual Machine for live CD's

Opus opus at slowlanecafe.com
Thu Jun 11 11:14:02 EDT 2009


Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Rather than reboot to try a distribution on a live CD,
> could a VirtualBox machine be setup to read the CD drive
> each time it is started and thus boot into whatever
> live CD were in the drive?
>   
I use VirtualBox for desktop virtualization, and what I do is just tell 
the VM to mount the ISO image and boot from it. I've had good luck with 
Linux Live-CDs this way.

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