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spacemonkey
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MobaLiveCD

#1 Post by spacemonkey »

[Mod Note: the present is the official forum topic for Mobateks MobaLiveCD; https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1471]

I have played with this a bit and works very nicely, BUT.. it does leave a fair few traces of its use around in the registry.

It seems to be base on QEMU but with less control over the settings.

Heres what the site says about it.
MobaLiveCD is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu".
MobaLiveCD allows you to test your LiveCD with a single click : after downloading the ISO image file of your favorite LiveCD, you just have to start it in MobaLiveCD and here you are, without the need to burn a CD-Rom or to reboot your computer.
http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/en/

I guess it depends on how fussy you want to be. If you want no traces then this isn't any good for you. But you will only get the traces of QEMU running not the applications you run on the virtual system.

Anywaaaay... its running great on my key and I like it :)

Let me know what you think.

n.b. I forgot to mention that it will run direct from the download without installing or any messing around..
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#2 Post by spacemonkey »

Version 2.0 is now out and "Lifehacker" has just done a piece about it...
MobaLiveCD, a free, stand-alone emulation tool, lets you run Linux live CDs from a window inside Windows, without any hard drive installation whatsoever. Based on the open-source QEMU emulator, MobaLiveCD can set up a live CD with a bit of hard drive space for persistent changes on your system, or you can run the 1.6MB app off a thumb drive or desktop and simply point it at an ISO image.
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#3 Post by spacemonkey »

Seriously... no interest in this program? I'm surprised! I see that MobaPhoto is included. Has anyone even had a go with this?
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#4 Post by ashghost »

All it does is extract (natively portable) QEMU to your TEMP directory to run a live CD, then cleanup after itself. You can apparently only use 32-bit (I tried with Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit) and you can't really customize anything else except virtual hard drive creation. It automatically attempts to install the kqemu accelerator, which fails without administrator rights (in Vista, at least).

If you want a GUI for QEMU, try QEMU manager - it's head and shoulders above MobaLiveCD. http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=640

Their MobaXVT and Moba SSH similarly use the temp directory. I did like MobaPhoto when I tried it, but now that I got a 16 GB flash drive I don't mind the space that the much more powerful JAlbum takes (it needs Java).
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#5 Post by spacemonkey »

ashghost wrote:If you want a GUI for QEMU, try QEMU manager - it's head and shoulders above MobaLiveCD. http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=640
I completely agree, but for a quick, no fuss, no setup, instant load for most live CD's/DVD's its excellent. I also use QEMU Manager as my 1st choice but use MobaLiveCD to have a quick look at new downloaded ISO's
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