What emulator / VM software can I use to create a Win32-portable Linux Guest?

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Published on 2010-03-24T06:14:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 6:23 UTC
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Hi,

I want to create a portable VM setup so that I can boot a Linux install regardless of which Windows XP / Windows 7 host machine I am on.

I was looking at Qemu but it doesn't appear to have a relatively safe win32 build. Other things like VirtualBox require complete install on the host OS for performance reasons. I'm not so concerned about performance, I just want to run a few curses based applications.

My ideal end goal would be a a memory stick of some size with a VM/Emulator I can boot on most WinXP/Windows 7 machines and access my own curses based applications (probably archlinux or debian).

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

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