Open the file and extract the software to your USB drive. Once your USB drive is ready, download Portable VirtualBox. This will delete all the drive’s contents, so make doubly sure you’re formatting on the USB drive you intend to use, and not any other drive on your system. To reformat a drive, right-click it in Windows Explorer, select Format and choose NTFS under the File System menu. (If you’re looking for something free to mess around with in VirtualBox, Ubuntu should do the trick.)įinally, consider reformatting your USB drive as an NTFS file system, because the FAT32 system used by some USB drives will limit file sizes to 4GB. You’ll still need to supply your own installation files, and in the case of Windows, your own serial key to validate your copy of the software. You’ll need a fairly spacious flash drive to install operating systems with Portable VirtualBox.Īlso, keep in mind that VirtualBox doesn’t come with any actual operating systems.
That means you’ll need a big-enough USB drive to contain whatever operating system you install-1.5GB for Windows XP and 5GB for Ubuntu, to name a couple of examples-and you might have problems using a virtual machine on a five year-old netbook with limited resources. VirtualBox also consumes a certain amount of hard drive space and memory-both of which you can adjust when setting it up-as well as processing power.
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