Jordan,
You are right about my inclination towards full-fledged VMs. I use only
a desktop workstation, I have no laptops, so I have not felt the need to
go portable. I usually prefer the installer version over the portable
version given the choice.
Unfortunately, I cannot be of much help as I have not experimented with
this concept of making applications portable.
In many instances, light-weight run-time virtual solutions like vDosPlus
and OTVDM/WINEVDM can be preferable to complete VMs, especially for
older OS's like DOS and Win 3.1. On the other hand, applications that
interact with other applications may benefit from complete VMs (like
Acrobat 6 in W2K or the complete PostScript printing environment in Win
3.1).
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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Based on past threads hereI might guess that you just choose to go the
full VM route for an entire OS, including all the stuff that has been
installed into it. But I was wondering if you have tried anything with
making individual apps fully portable ?