[Novalug] VirtualBox flash drive (Jon LaBadie)

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Ditto Mark. Ditto Roger.
Hell, even Ditto Rush!

How many times do I have to say it?

A USB Flash Drive is Just A Disk! Treat it as such, and boot into it 
directly.

JIM

P.S. And if your Computer won't boot USB drives than simply chainload to 
the partition from a bootable drive.

On 3/26/2012 8:35 PM, Mark A. Metz wrote:
> ditto Roger.
>
> Plus, you might be able to get to a menu and choose from any recognized,
> bootable device without changing the BIOS settings of "someone's" computer.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 03/26/2012 07:01 PM, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
>> Why not just boot directly into Linux? Avoid the overhead of the host system, etc.
>>
>> --
>> Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
>>        Email: RogerB at bronord.com
>>        Web Site: www.bronord.com
>>
>> On 3/26/12 4:44 PM, "Jon LaBadie"<novalugml at jgcomp.com>   wrote:
>>> Three things came together to stimulate this post.
>>>
>>> 1. Various discussions on booting linux from a USB thumb drive
>>> 2. Best Buy having a sale on SanDisk drives that stick out
>>>       only a quarter of an inch
>>> 3. Seeing a few articles about putting a portable VirtualBox
>>>       onto a USB thumb drive and running linux as a guest
>>>
>>> It would be nice to carry around a persistant copy of a linux
>>> system.  I see pros and cons about the approaches in 1&3.  For
>>> example, if I'm going to use someone's computer, would they be
>>> happy about me shutting down their system and possibly mucking
>>> with their BIOS to boot from a USB stick?  On the other hand,
>>> I think using a VirtualBox approach would be specific to the
>>> OS.  Or could multiple VB's (ones for linux, windows, and mac
>>> hosts) be installed but all share a single guest linux?
>>>
>>> Has anyone used the VB approach?  Comments on it?
>>>
>>> Jon
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