Good video. Not sure if anybody has mentioned, but if you have VirtualBox (VB) already installed on your local PC, the download dialog will not come up. VB will start from removable drive as if it's installed already. Go to a PC without VB installed & whole process works great.
As usual, excellent video Miguel. Always a pleasure to watch 'em. I trully believe I must be the only one guy whos's watch 'em all. I'm from Venezuela, watching your work from Venezuela and you wouldn't believe how much you've help me in my job through your videos. Thanks! Now, my question: Have you tried out to boot a computer with this external harddrive running the Virtual Win 7? I mean, could I use this virtual running operating system to boot in my customers pc's in order to make repairs, sort of like running Hiren's Mini Win XP or Mini Win 7? Thanks Miguel (BTW: Where are you from originally buddy? Bye
Hello how are you? Just want to ask what program did you use to record your desktop screen. I will need that. Thanks and appreciate your help. Great tutorial.
Hi Miguel, thank you for this excellent tutorial. I would like to ask whether we can install applications that will also be portable and be used on any PC? for example Microsoft Office, Games, Steam Games etc. Also, when we open the virtual box in other PC, do we need to have Administrator Privilege? apart from the need to change the drive letter if necessary.
Great video. Can you boot a computer with this and only this drive? I would like to setup a external drive with Win7 that I can connect to a computer that needs to be repaired and boot via the USB drive and run Win7 not some OS such as Linux. Thanks for your time, Tom
Thanks Miguel !!! - That wasn't painful at all ! - I have a 125 Gb Solid State Hard Drive that I am going to try this on - Thank you VERY MUCH - I also have a little Dell Netbook - Atom CPU that I wouldn't mind trying the USB 2.0 on ! - It has no Optical CD or DVD Drive - so the Usb 2.0 Ports are All I can use ! I know the Nature of the Atom Processor is Hugely Slow - I was wondering If I could Speed things up a bit and maybe install better Audio, Video, Swf, flv Drivers as well as a Virtual Box System ? - Sny comments would be greatly appreciated - I want to use the Netbook strictly for engineering TH-cam Videos and Audio recordings !!
Hi AvoidErrors all of your tutorials are Good neverfails! thankyou for this tutorial but i have a question if i set it in 32bit the iso image that ill be using is also 32bit? And what if i change the 25gb to maximum space of my external HDD for example 300gb? what it does? I am a begginer i dont have any idea what portable virtual box can do or what is the importance of it i am a Noob. thankyou in advance!
I have installed it on my external HD , I installed Windows 10 and some other things, so now if I wanna run it at school so I just plug my external HD and it runs,right?
Great video! very informative. However, I do have one question. I am trying to create this so that my usb will have it's own IP address, port, and function as it's own server, for file sharing purposes, mostly in a vehicle. I planned on powering it through a usb port. Through that powering process, do you believe I will be able to reach file sharing on it's server?
A USB does not work on its own. You need a computer to plug it into for the virtual machine to run. The usb doesn't have a CPU, GPU, PSU or RAM, so it completely relies on the PC it's plugged into for those. It is only storage.
Page system: Motherboard: More than 75 of the host memory (2.00 GB) is mapped to the virtual machine. There is not enough memory left for the host operating system. Select a smaller amount.
Great video Miguel, I subbed ya! So I have an old Acer Laptop which has an 80 GB hard drive can I use this on there with my Win 7 Disk to get it working again? Or at least use it as an external hard drive? Right now it is pretty much worthless as I deleted the original MBR which was Windows XP my first computer. Unfortunately I threw that disk away thinking I would never use XP ever again! Live and Learn! Man! I wish I had that Microsoft Windows XP disk today..Thanks for your reply my friend..
Can you please make a video on how to make a "Factory recovery hidden partition" when you replace the hard drive so you can set the computer to factory default
Miguel so we'll have a running windows from drive C and on top a virtual one from our USB drive just tell me if i want to install games on it will they work
How about partitioning flashdrive for windows 7 to install it directly on windows 7??? I directly tried to partition kali linux on flash drive and I could boot on it directly using bios boot sequence
Hello, I'm wondering what are the drawbacks of using this portable virtualbox rather than the actual one ? For example, is the guest OS will be slow in some ways ?
feral cat it will be slower however that's what happens when you run a virtual computer on the existing computer since it shares the resources with the physical computer, basically divides your computers memory (RAM) into 2 since there are 2 versions of the same software (Operating System) on the same system (Computer)
can you do this for windows 8.1 as well cuz i have a laptop that has a hard drive but it doesnt have a hdd cable connector like can you use this with a laptop with no hard drive
I've got a question for y'all. So, it's my understanding that flash memory works faster than a hard drive. Does that mean that if I have a laptop that runs on windows (on hhd) and I use that laptop to run my flash windows... that the flash operating system will actually function faster than the operating system on the laptop itself?
hi, im having trouble with the install on windows. im using a win 8 pc for the install onto my 128 gb usb thumbdrive. virtualbox installed great, but when i try to install windows 7 onto it, it wont get past the part where it needs to partition the drive. can a thumb drive not be partitioned properly?
What about drivers? Do you have to install all your PC's drivers again on the external drive? And wouldn't that screw everything up if you moved it over to another PC?
Hey Miguel, i have VirtualBox portable installed in the external drive but when i click to open virtualBox a message pops out saying, Please start VirtualBox again, so that all paths can be adapted. but on the bottom right hand corner another messages pops quickly and goes saying Right Click to See the Menu. but when i Right click no Menu shows up. what do i do here, can you please help. thank you
And the point of having a "portable" virtual box is? Especially if it can't boot from this portable box... If I'm able to get on a working computer it most likely will already have a version of windows and access to an virtual box application download from the Internet.
How about running Win7 on a Win8 or foreign machine with all your apps. Use a Custom made Win PE ISO/DVD instead of standard install disc to create the VM image. Oh wait, I just could boot that.
how can i boot my computer over this virtual windows7 ? is it possible to convert it to a bootable windows 7 over usb pen drive?? thank you very much miguel..
I have downloaded and run Virtual Box. When I get to the part where you go get your ISO I am lost. I am not into tech that much. So if you could tell me how I get to the ISO on my computer I would be very thankful. Or if anyone here can tell that would be great.
Will this leave any trace on the host computer's HDD? I've noticed when using Windows Virtual PC that anything I install on the virtual PC is actually recorded in the Windows Registry of the host computer. I'd like to be able to use my business laptop for private use after work, but without leaving any trace of my private use on the business HDD.
why do we some times not show the option for 64bit even though I used the now vanished ... after some time or number of restarts and deleting residues appear ... if someone knows how to help ...
Does the portable HARD DISK needs to be formatted if i am installing a windows on it, because I have alot of data stored on it. Please reply as fast as you can (urgent)
Where do i find the iso to install the OS? Whenever I launch the virtual machien it says FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted. because I didn't run it on an iso? is the iso my actual operating system and where can i get isos if I want a different version of windows? Do i need to have an actual windows disk?
looking forward to your response (please) well know many people don't respond to people when Qs are asked but I see u do reply as this was made in 2013 but see u do reply as it showed comment 2 months and 7 months so my Q is when I've downloaded data from the internet to the virtual drive box windows ...etc 1) am I able to save, shear, carry over to the host computer, usb or true hdd per say??? 2) if i use the virtual box with whatever OS and I would like to do internet banking as in true life as for security perpetrates is one able to do so or virtual means virtual so it will not count as a payment?? 3) if u able to give answer for #2 would I be able to do live trading in a virtual box world??
1. Yes but its a pain. 2. Virtual box emulates windows. It works as the real thing so if you buy something from the internet while using virtual box it will count as a payment
Miguel, Thanks for being clear, concise, and as detailed as you are in this video. I will watch them all.
Good video. Not sure if anybody has mentioned, but if you have VirtualBox (VB) already installed on your local PC, the download dialog will not come up. VB will start from removable drive as if it's installed already. Go to a PC without VB installed & whole process works great.
you would need to uninstall any previous VB
(vb)
As usual, excellent video Miguel. Always a pleasure to watch 'em. I trully believe I must be the only one guy whos's watch 'em all. I'm from Venezuela, watching your work from Venezuela and you wouldn't believe how much you've help me in my job through your videos. Thanks! Now, my question: Have you tried out to boot a computer with this external harddrive running the Virtual Win 7? I mean, could I use this virtual running operating system to boot in my customers pc's in order to make repairs, sort of like running Hiren's Mini Win XP or Mini Win 7? Thanks Miguel (BTW: Where are you from originally buddy? Bye
Hello how are you? Just want to ask what program did you use to record your desktop screen. I will need that. Thanks and appreciate your help. Great tutorial.
Hi Miguel, thank you for this excellent tutorial. I would like to ask whether we can install applications that will also be portable and be used on any PC? for example Microsoft Office, Games, Steam Games etc.
Also, when we open the virtual box in other PC, do we need to have Administrator Privilege? apart from the need to change the drive letter if necessary.
Excellent. I will try this out. planning on having several programs (non-portable) on the drive for portability.
Quick question: Can the virtual Windows 7 be run from Linux Mint? Great video!
Hi Dude i noticed that u are really doin well in youtube Good Job
Short description ; u go straight to the goal
Great video. Can you boot a computer with this and only this drive? I would like to setup a external drive with Win7 that I can connect to a computer that needs to be repaired and boot via the USB drive and run Win7 not some OS such as Linux.
Thanks for your time,
Tom
no, you cant boot from this drive. this has to be used on an already working windows.
Thanks Miguel !!! - That wasn't painful at all ! - I have a 125 Gb Solid State Hard Drive that I am going to try this on - Thank you VERY MUCH - I also have a little Dell Netbook - Atom CPU that I wouldn't mind trying the USB 2.0 on ! - It has no Optical CD or DVD Drive - so the Usb 2.0 Ports are All I can use ! I know the Nature of the Atom Processor is Hugely Slow - I was wondering If I could Speed things up a bit and maybe install better Audio, Video, Swf, flv Drivers as well as a Virtual Box System ? - Sny comments would be greatly appreciated - I want to use the Netbook strictly for engineering TH-cam Videos and Audio recordings !!
Hi AvoidErrors all of your tutorials are Good neverfails! thankyou for this tutorial but i have a question if i set it in 32bit the iso image that ill be using is also 32bit? And what if i change the 25gb to maximum space of my external HDD for example 300gb? what it does? I am a begginer i dont have any idea what portable virtual box can do or what is the importance of it i am a Noob. thankyou in advance!
I have installed it on my external HD , I installed Windows 10 and some other things, so now if I wanna run it at school so I just plug my external HD and it runs,right?
Thank you very much Miguel for sharing, could this work on android phone Miguel??
Thanks
+Steves Beez I have not tried that
no, its for intel processors, phones are running arm processors
Will the same procedure applies for Windows 10? Thank you for your kind reply.
These instructions are pretty involved. Are they available in a text format?
thanks for videos , can we add drivers to this portable version ???
Thank you for your useful instructions. Can I use this for creating windows servers Virual machines?
Great video! very informative. However, I do have one question. I am trying to create this so that my usb will have it's own IP address, port, and function as it's own server, for file sharing purposes, mostly in a vehicle. I planned on powering it through a usb port. Through that powering process, do you believe I will be able to reach file sharing on it's server?
A USB does not work on its own. You need a computer to plug it into for the virtual machine to run. The usb doesn't have a CPU, GPU, PSU or RAM, so it completely relies on the PC it's plugged into for those. It is only storage.
Page system: Motherboard: More than 75 of the host memory (2.00 GB) is mapped to the virtual machine. There is not enough memory left for the host operating system. Select a smaller amount.
Thanks for the video. How ca I open my portable Windows on Linux??
Great video Miguel, I subbed ya! So I have an old Acer Laptop which has an 80 GB hard drive can I use this on there with my Win 7 Disk to get it working again? Or at least use it as an external hard drive? Right now it is pretty much worthless as I deleted the original MBR which was Windows XP my first computer. Unfortunately I threw that disk away thinking I would never use XP ever again! Live and Learn! Man!
I wish I had that Microsoft Windows XP disk today..Thanks for your reply my friend..
I have an MSI recovery dvd that installs Windows XP Home
Can you please make a video on how to make a "Factory recovery hidden partition" when you replace the hard drive so you can set the computer to factory default
Miguel so we'll have a running windows from drive C and on top a virtual one from our USB drive
just tell me if i want to install games on it will they work
LOVE your videos mate. clear and to the point.....keep it up!
How about partitioning flashdrive for windows 7 to install it directly on windows 7??? I directly tried to partition kali linux on flash drive and I could boot on it directly using bios boot sequence
Virtual Box won't start at all on another computer. Is it because i don't have admin wrights on that machine?
Are you able to boot from the virtual disk image without boring in to windows
Thanks Miguel :-) Fast and clear.
Hello,
I'm wondering what are the drawbacks of using this portable virtualbox rather than the actual one ? For example, is the guest OS will be slow in some ways ?
feral cat it will be slower however that's what happens when you run a virtual computer on the existing computer since it shares the resources with the physical computer, basically divides your computers memory (RAM) into 2 since there are 2 versions of the same software (Operating System) on the same system (Computer)
Can I check both 32 bit and 64 bit at the same time for install? Will it work on both systems?
can you do this for windows 8.1 as well cuz i have a laptop that has a hard drive but it doesnt have a hdd cable connector like can you use this with a laptop with no hard drive
You are still a great teacher. Thank you.
thank you bro! :) really helpful for someone like me who starting I.T.
I've got a question for y'all.
So, it's my understanding that flash memory works faster than a hard drive.
Does that mean that if I have a laptop that runs on windows (on hhd) and I use that laptop to run my flash windows... that the flash operating system will actually function faster than the operating system on the laptop itself?
No, flash is slower than harddisk. And no, your Operating system on a harddisk will be faster, a lot faster than on flash drive.
hi, im having trouble with the install on windows. im using a win 8 pc for the install onto my 128 gb usb thumbdrive. virtualbox installed great, but when i try to install windows 7 onto it, it wont get past the part where it needs to partition the drive. can a thumb drive not be partitioned properly?
Is the process the same for using windows 10?
Can i connect the screen of virtual in other pc
What about drivers? Do you have to install all your PC's drivers again on the external drive? And wouldn't that screw everything up if you moved it over to another PC?
Virtualbox is still just a program with the real windows running in the background so it will use the drivers you have installed on that pc
please inform me about any light OS which can run VMware and boot from USB
miguel quiero saver si despues de la instalacion del w7 en el portable hard drive si el virtual funciona para mac?
no lo e provado pero debe de funcionar
Hey Miguel, i have VirtualBox portable installed in the external drive but when i click to open virtualBox a message pops out saying, Please start VirtualBox again, so that all paths can be adapted. but on the bottom right hand corner another messages pops quickly and goes saying Right Click to See the Menu. but when i Right click no Menu shows up. what do i do here, can you please help. thank you
if we have another pc in which there is no window is it plug n play window or it will not work on it?
Thanks! One question, where do you store the ISO. Also on the external hard drive just as the rest?
yep
EXCELLENT!!! Now, where to find the windows 7 .iso file?? :)
online
Are you making it from a Win7 box or from a Win7 dvd? I.e., is Win7 dvd required?
yes, a windows 7 disk or an .ISO is required
hola que tal? hago todo lo del video y cuando lo vuelvo a abrir me sale error, pues no encuentra el archivo.
Do you think you would be able to install Kali Linux on the Portable VirtualBox?
good one I need to try that
Thanks!! Well taught. Exactly what I've been looking for.
It'd be so nice if we can all have that iso
And the point of having a "portable" virtual box is? Especially if it can't boot from this portable box... If I'm able to get on a working computer it most likely will already have a version of windows and access to an virtual box application download from the Internet.
How about running Win7 on a Win8 or foreign machine with all your apps. Use a Custom made Win PE ISO/DVD instead of standard install disc to create the VM image.
Oh wait, I just could boot that.
Does that go against terms of service agreement?
Thank you so much for this neat and very helpful tutorial. I appreciate you sharing it.
Can i use the same method to run virtual window 7 on my 32 gb pen drive...
yes. is going to be a slower installation
Thanks
I keep getting a "application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows." what does that mean?
When I try to open up a virtual machine a message comes up saying the machine has terminated. Can you help?
how can i boot my computer over this virtual windows7 ? is it possible to convert it to a bootable windows 7 over usb pen drive??
thank you very much miguel..
+tufan oztel that is not needed. just boot directly into the os you have in virtual box...
I have downloaded and run Virtual Box. When I get to the part where you go get your ISO I am lost. I am not into tech that much. So if you could tell me how I get to the ISO on my computer I would be very thankful. Or if anyone here can tell that would be great.
Once it's set up, can it be run through linux?
Hello, Can you do a video with redHat Bootable on USB? Please.
does it work the same with VMware?
Makes me wonder about performance overhead though, since it's running inside of a VM...
Will this leave any trace on the host computer's HDD? I've noticed when using Windows Virtual PC that anything I install on the virtual PC is actually recorded in the Windows Registry of the host computer.
I'd like to be able to use my business laptop for private use after work, but without leaving any trace of my private use on the business HDD.
Yeah it records
Can this boot up Windows 8 on Windows 7
Is it cross platform with Mac OS X and windows?
G.reat teacher. Thank you for your time and effort for us students
And do we need any windows disc for it
Great video Miguel, can you do that using linux
yes same process but with Linux
Can I do this to install Windows on a hard drive and then use that as my Internal HDD instead of booting from USB ?
+Sanchees3 no
Many thanks for this. I got it finally from you.
how much ram should the host computer have since we are pretty much adding a second computer to it's usual load?
Well, since the original computer should ONLY run vb, 8 gb is enough
Hi, Is it possible to install VM on to a dropbox or google drive? Cheers
why do we some times not show the option for 64bit even though I used the now vanished ... after some time or number of restarts and deleting residues appear ... if someone knows how to help ...
when i do everythingyou say and go to double click on the vb it comes up with english i press ok then it opens vb like normal
why ???
do you need to change drive letter every time you plug if into a new pc,?
+Rizwan Khalid yeah
+ChubCraft no...?
Can this be done with centos 6.8 ????
Do i need to install the VirtualBox in every computer and the drivers of Oracle corporation?
+Armando Mariscal no. just plug the usb and boot from it
How do you run the application without admin?
Does the portable HARD DISK needs to be formatted if i am installing a windows on it, because I have alot of data stored on it. Please reply as fast as you can (urgent)
no need to format your disk I tried installing it on my usb thumb drive with data stored on it and it works fine
+AviodErrors I installed it to my external hard drive and when i connect it to my laptop and turn it on i get a disk read error message, can u help
Where do i find the iso to install the OS? Whenever I launch the virtual machien it says
FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.
because I didn't run it on an iso?
is the iso my actual operating system and where can i get isos if I want a different version of windows?
Do i need to have an actual windows disk?
or torrent
there is no official way to download an older windows iso but windows media creation tool works well for windows 10 ps. a iso is a virtual cd
Thanks Miguel, much appreciated.
dear avoiderrors,
can i use this so i can exally boot and run windows. on a pc without a hard drive?
no virtualbox is a program that runs on your os so you can not use it on a pc without os
Can I use Virtual PC to do this?
Is it possible to install the OS to the external hard drive without making it virtual?
Yes. that would be one of my up coming tutorials
Can the virtual machine get windows vista installed ,when my computer has windows 7?
Answer me please
Yes
Does the portable virtual work with mac? or it's just for windows ?
PORTABLE virtualbox is for windows, but you can just use normal virtualbox that works on mac, windows or linux
What if we want to run Windows from a USB on a Mac host?
@@TheRealBOBlibob i think there is a portable virtual box version for linux and mac.
can i connect this to a bad computer without a hard drive or with and it will start ?
No, this is a virtual machine, A operating system that runs inside a operating system. It can't be booted from.
Can u do this with an SD card
there is a version of hiren's boot cd (that can be booted off a flash drive too of course) and it has mini win7 and mini xp . just my comment. peace.
can this be done on linux mint?
tell me 1 thing plz if i plugin external hard drive with apple mac then i use windows features
if you install the normal virtual box that is available for mac yes. virtualbox.org
how is needing admin portable????
looking forward to your response (please)
well know many people don't respond to people when Qs are asked but I see u do reply as this was made in 2013 but see u do reply as it showed comment 2 months and 7 months so my Q is
when I've downloaded data from the internet to the virtual drive box windows ...etc
1) am I able to save, shear, carry over to the host computer, usb or true hdd
per say???
2) if i use the virtual box with whatever OS and I would like to do internet banking as in true life as for security perpetrates is one able to do so or virtual means virtual so it will not count as a payment??
3) if u able to give answer for #2 would I be able to do live trading in a virtual box world??
1. Yes but its a pain.
2. Virtual box emulates windows. It works as the real thing so if you buy something from the internet while using virtual box it will count as a payment
3. Yes. And its as safe as in the normal OS
Would this work with OSX as the host operating system. Thank you.
PossumFilmCompany no
+AvoidErrors why?
So I could use windows seven on a mac without taking up hard drive space. It costs to much to get the hard drive upgraded on a mac.
+PossumFilmCompany Theoretically yes, virtualbox supports OSX as far as I know, but you can still encounter software problems
Thank You for This Good Video!!!!!!
i need a virtual machine with out admin rights i cant install it becuz i dont know the admin pass for my office laptop
Thats impossible. If a program is going to make changes to the PC you need admin rights,
great idea I was looking for that thanks DoD
its fixed on lease start virtualbox again so thet all paths can be adabted
Hey, I tried it and it said there was no boot file!
I got stuffed up... Usb drive did not download all files.