One click virtual machine demo?

Question

I want to give a demo for my customers use virtual machine, but I don't want the customer to install the virtual machine software, can I make a demo which bundle the virtual machine software and my virtual machine, then just a click to run the virtual machine. It will be cool. is there any tool can do that?

Answer 1

You could try using Portable VirtualBox as per this forum thread. I have not tried it myself but it seems like some people have had luck with it.

Answer 2

I'm not aware of a virtual machine that doesn't need to be installed. If using Windows, the Microsoft Virtual PC is a relatively compact, free, quick-to-install option for a VM.

One other option would be to install an OS and your demo onto a USB flash drive. As long as the computer used can boot from USB (which is pretty common in newer computers), then you can have complete control over the OS in this fashion.

EDIT: Sun VirtualBox is free VM software. You do have to install it, but I've found that it works well, plus it's free.