Comments on: How To Test and Boot an ISO Image Without Burning to CD or DVD

By: Panos

Panos — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:22:54 +0000

Thanks a lot for this article.. Virtual Box is a nice tool
otherwise id have to use VMware which is quite more troublesome.. and it’s not free..

By: tashi

tashi — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:27:59 +0000

nice,i’lll try it…m ur ardent follower

By: foo

foo — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:45:21 +0000

Can you do a tutorial on how to merge different ISOs to one boot disk? I’d love to be able to combine a few of my favorite small boot disks onto one super boot disk.

By: Humayun Khan

Humayun Khan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:05:42 +0000

Hi Raymond

Nice Post

The watermarks in the pictures are great
Can you post some article regarding free watermarking softwares.

I need a watermarking software.

By: Steven S

Steven S — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:55:53 +0000

Well done Raymond, you rule (again)!! I\’d procrastinated trying out a Virtual machine for months, but it was super easy to do using your guide.

I\’m initially using mine to test new \’burns\’ of BartPE, so much faster than changing/burning CD/booting/testing…

Actually to overcome my technofear I initially tried MobaLiveCD as suggested by Gerhard above (good one dude!) which is indeed simple to use, but much slower than VirtualBox (especially on my 1700Mhz single processor) and not configurable.

Reckon I\’ll stick with VirtualBox and skip Microsoft\’s offering (once bitten etc.).

I could not work out how to remove the .iso context menu commands after I had finished with MobaLiveCD, so wrote the following registry merge file… to use it yourself, copy and paste with any test editor/word processor in *plain* test to a .reg file, then r-click on it and select Merge. Should be 3 lines of text only, so remove any extra new lines inserted on this webpage.

REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\iso_auto_file\\shell\\Emuler avec BuibuiLiveCD]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\iso_auto_file\\shell\\Test this with MobaLiveCD]

By: david

david — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:28:52 +0000

Erwin Ried

Can you tell us how to use Alcohol to boot a Live CD??
you can mount a CD but I didn’t see how to boot!

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:06:58 +0000

@ Raymond

I found out that it is better to have the base memory setting higher than the recommended 64MB.

With 64MB I could not load Slax or UBCD4Win as they got stuck before fully loading the OS. After changing to 128MB it loads fine. (now I set to 512MB, it seems the VB will take what it needs on demand?)
When I load Slax in base memory of 512MB and 32MB video, I see in Windows XP task manager that there are 2 instances of VB and VBoxSVC and VCDDaemon with total about 61MB.

I still cannot get the network to work. I get IP 10.0.2.15 with gateway 10.0.2.2.

And for Slax, I get message to change the color to 32 bits on the guest OS, but I did not see such configuration in VB.