-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Oracle Virtualbox (GPL, free) and VMware Fusion (Proprietary, not-Free), VMware Player (Proprietary, free), etc all works on MacOSX (or OSX86). Oracle VirtualBox and VMware WorkStation and VMware Player, etc all works on Linux, Windows, etc Host OS. In VMware Player a new VM cannot be created, copied VM can be used, and then can be modified. In VMware WorkStation, VM can be created & modified. WorkStation (it comes with the free Player) can be downloaded as Trial usage mode.
These hypervisor software will allow to create VM (Virtual Machines) for Guest OS, running on top of the Host OS/machine. Everything inside a VM is virtual/emulated/simulated. (Almost) ANY bootable or Live-Bootable DVD/CD ISO files, Physical DVD/CD-ROM drives, Bootable or Non-Bootable Physical USB flash drives/sticks, etc all can be directly attached with a VM, and then run inside a VM. Inside a VM, virtual empty drive or virtual formatted drive, etc can be attached & created. VM and Virtual drive's can be encrypted too. Such virtual empty-drive or formatted-drive will actually exist as a physical file in Host OS. On older FAT32 based host OS, file will/may span over multiple files distributed on 1024 MBytes files. On NTFS, HPFS, LVM, ext2/3, etc file will remain as 1 large file. You can create VM with a virtual drive, or without a virtual drive, upto you. Inside a VM, a physical drive partition can also be used as a virtual-drive. And compacting features can be used to reduce physical file-size, related to any VM. Oracle VirtualBox and VMware WorkStation/Fusion/Player etc all have extension-packs, which contains latest virtual drivers. Some are generic, GPL. Some are proprietory. If the Guest-OS disk/disc/drive/stick, pre-includes those virtual-drivers, then such Guest-OS can run even better inside the VM. Before installing VirtualBox or VMware, etc hypervisor software, do this : Go inside your physical HOST computer's UEFI/EFI/BIOS (usually by pressing F2, F10, F8, F1, Command, etc keboard buttons), and enable feature such as : Virtualization, AMD-V, Intel VT-x, etc ... whichever you will see inside your BIOS/firmware. Physical computers which will have those Hardware(HW) based virtualization support, then VM will run smoothly & faster in those computers, videos will play better, OR ELSE, those hypervisor software will create partial virtualization or para-virtualization environment/container based VM ... which will be slow and less smooth ... but will at-least run. TAILS should release a VirtualBox VM based edition. And disable/disconnect usb web-cam inside a VM, and better is to cover the web-cam with a white-or-black small piece of paper. Some computers model already comes with a physical shutter to cover the web-cam glass-hole. PCI-passthrough features in hypervisor software can be used to connect extra/2nd PCI / PCIe based keyboard interface or other physical hardware devices DIRECTLY with the Guest-OS VM, to use a completely separate keyboard or other device, than host's keyboard. And there are GRUB, etc boot-manipulation software based tiny bootable iso which can also be used with hypervisor/VM, to boot from a Physical Bootable USB sticks, inside VM, directly. Bootable USB sticks can be imaged, and can be booted inside the VM as well. Hope these info helps, - -- Bright Star. Received from intrigeri, on 2013-11-01 2:30 AM: > Micah Lee wrote (31 Oct 2013 22:24:13 GMT) : >> With SecureDrop, the viewing station requires Tails with persistent >> storage, and you can only use persistent storage if you boot off of a >> USB stick. > > FTR: you can boot from DVD and use persistence on a USB stick. > It's not documented nor formally supported, but I'm told it > works fine. > > Cheers, > -- > intrigeri > | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc > | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJSc5IwAAoJEID2ikYfWSP6MCoP/1oPgNRqqSp6TIKBywk2f8It k05p/wbhHkncBolhrSrae5uXPIpaSm61xjod4tODVv9Sdql4OIlHKuf2lCwhhFBm Yc9WdkeeISLfgOAJ1Xx+lQS/63SYfFG/rGqykcide/S/ffaB+MC2BO6qWhpsoPNr OhGoT+xmS+5wU/LmXvav7xGPIw8jM21R7Ow6j0IntLEW5DlELgLDAMQqFyrT1rVs 2junaPn+cXM1fmtLORQUzUVqtnyKMAjCY5/qqWxNuBdCbjjff8MKM/BTYU7SH71i gEhmvCsI3+muKbqtBC8yLSOYxxwbMEAQTA0eOKlHi6dfmPaqy5uXWjhKpHjiM5qW 4j3LSgReNlEK+9XKrUYZmy6LZ2p73CdhRnhmjLJP6D05Xs3cXhanqdYc9IRtCgsf gZsC03aBQ6/JcGURr8YJ6IJeBWxdbKbdMUUjoI3/FCGsjVTkdoeJ8DE2yTgSvB8+ 6YCIaGLT/qI3SYgWMzYYtl2Q0y0D2Ht7RAMjmVVu+SnUCeqxUjo7G4kJYiOM0pC7 vcTNOVKiFhp192PGVc+j4vCcpfKwkBdBcbSpuhaA6QUQqEUor4U0FcjiV4NqdfYh qRCUZbDOZgxwcgdj6oHhLfUYKc5uCkO3qsl3RTxpPUQecNbXBiXxQUOdM7Cn9Wvt Xq7wBEVIwABkWijLgJrS =/iHe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
