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I'd like to make myself a portable virtual machine for bringing my own sandboxes for development and staging on-the-go.
I'd mainly run Arch Linux and Windows Server 2008 on those.
I was thinking of bringing the image on a usb drive and simply install VMware Player on the computers I'd use it with but I was wondering is VMWare Player is allowed to write on the virtual disk or if the disk would be resetted to its initial state after each reboot?
If this is a good idea then simply tell me so, or else then could you suggest me something else please?
Thanks!
Why are you worried about write permissions? Are you wanting the disk to reset its state after reboots? – jpaugh – 2012-01-23T04:14:07.830
1If you have access to VMWare Workstation, check out Pocket ACE to create portable VMs on flash drives. I have not used it, but it sounds like what you want. – skub – 2012-01-23T04:40:27.277
I thought VMWare Player was only to run already created instance of an OS on a specified snapshot and that every made work was lost when rebooted but I was wrong, I'm currently experimenting with it. – Tommy B. – 2012-01-23T04:51:36.037
@skub I happen to have access to one at work, I'll check it out thanks! – Tommy B. – 2012-01-23T04:52:04.023