moka5 - OS virtualization like vmware

[portackager]

well, i wanted vmware to become portable but i found this..

30 megs
extract with uniextract


"Overview

moka5 is designed to be installed on a PC or USB Flash Drive. It is intended to run programs without installation. It is available as freeware. It is able to run normal windows applications in a similar way to MojoPac[citation needed]. moka5 runs "LivePCs" which are images of a PC and they are then emulated by a VMware software to function as a separate PC with its own settings, appearance and registry."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka5
http://www.moka5.com/

[webfork]

It requires that you actually HAVE an external device before it will allow you to save it to a portable format. And this portable format must have 515 megs free. Suck.

I'll keep testing though. Maybe it'll prove itself worth the extra fuss.

[webfork]

I put it on a removable drive and then copied it into a random folder on the same system. Got a fatal error.

I didn't try putting my removable drive in another machine but that's still not very self-contained and not portable by this sites' definition.

Shame, *really* want a portable VMWare.

[Andrew Lee]

You should look at Qemu Manager.

I have been using it for a while now, and it's pretty good.

[KFost63]

I looked at moka5 a long time ago, i'm not sure if they released a newer version. But, the one I tried maybe 3 months ago used to INSTALL vmware the first time you plugged in your USB drive, and then asked you if you want to keep or remove the program when you exited from moka. So it's not exactly the most stealthy of programs. I'd agree with Andrew^ and say that Qemu is the way to go.