how using linux on win-7 without installing it on pc

[shadababe04]

how can i practice linux without installing it...any virtual way or online site:roll:

 

[Maverick001]

Hi Shadababe04,

I was recently faced with the same problem having taken on some studies in Computer Forensics and Cybercrime. I use VMWare on my one laptop and VitualBox on another laptop.

This allows me to run:

Ubuntu
Santoku
Forensics Toolkit (FTK)
and Knoppix.

VirtualBox is free when I last checked and can be had from -http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualbox.mirror/?source=directory

VMWare is not but a trial version is available at -http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/workstation-evaluation

Maverick001

 

[fredd]

search Cygwin.

 

[godfreyl]

You can get boot disks for Ubuntu. That allows you to run it from the disk without installing it on your hard drive. Not sure about other linux distros.

 

[sudheerkm]

see
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/

 

[kgshankar1980]

VM Ware will be the ideal option...

You need to install below two softwares...

1. VM WARE PLAYER
2. VM WARE CONVERTER...

 

[mallappat2011]

Hi shadababe04,

You can try with flash drive like a pendrive, Install the OS on Pendrive when you want plug the pendrive and use it.

Thank You..

how can i practice linux without installing it...any virtual way or online site:roll:

 

[Ricardo_Electropepper]

Like it has been said here if you have a PC with more then 8GB ram the best option would be to use VirtualBox, i have used virtualbox in some PCs both with windows and linux has host and never had any problem, on the other hand i used VMware only once on a windows 7 PC, and one day it crashed after rebooting some anoying windows didnt go away but the worst was to uninstall it, it was like trying to take a very big and old leach of your but. Anyway stay away from VMware and if your PC has less than 8 GB use a distro with a live session disk like ubuntu or linux mint, has a last resort you can make a dualboot installation.

 

[shadababe04]

thanks...now i m using VMware.

 

[Ricardo_Electropepper]

Your loss