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Portable Virtual Machine and booting up question


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24-Jan-2008, 08:17 PM #1
Portable Virtual Machine and booting up question
I have an older laptop that doesn't support USB bootup. Is a Virtual Machine on a USB or on an external hard drive capable of booting on it's own or does it need the local Operating system (Windows XP) to boot it up? If so then I guess I'm out of luck. Can I get a bootstrap CD that will boot up a my a VM? Thank You.
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26-Jan-2008, 12:09 PM #2
VirtualPC needs to run under an operating system.
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28-Jan-2008, 12:25 AM #3
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I thought so but wasn't sure. Please advise if something like what I want ever comes out. Appreciate it.
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