How To Deploy A Linux LiveCD on Windows Using MobaLiveCD

There are many ways to test a certain Linux distribution on a hard drive partition containing a Windows operating system. A rapid alternative to analyze the features of a Linux distribution, without modifying the partition properties or installing it is by using a LiveCD.

The Linux distribution as LiveCD provides an operating system that will be booted from a removable media such as a CD, DVD or USB drive. But in this case a CD or DVD must be burned in order to create a bootable CD or DVD from the ISO file and the computer must be restarted.

The operation consumes time and is not always successful due to CD writing errors or other Linux distribution incompatibilities with a certain type of hardware. Fortunately, Windows users can test a Linux LiveCD without being the need to burn it on a removal media with the help of virtualization or emulation software.

MobaLiveCD is a freeware Windows application that allows the testing of Linux distributions as LiveCD directly in Windows (the computer restart is not required). MobaLiveCD is a very lightweight portable application that has only 1.5 MB file size as compared with other similar emulation software.

MobaLiveCD is based on Qemu, a free machine emulator and virtualizer. It is able to run operating systems with notable performances by using dynamic translation. As a virtualizer, Qemu executes the guest code on the host CPU achieving almost native performances.

Its intuitive graphical user interface provides the user the possibility to directly run a Linux distribution ISO image or associate the program with the right click menu of ISO files. As a consequence, with a single mouse click the desired Linux LiveCD can be started in Windows. Due to the fact that the application is portable, a certain Linux distribution can be deployed also with the help of an USB drive.

The amount of RAM consumption correspunding to MobaLiveCD application is minimal during booting, as well as Linux LiveCD testing. If you want to try the favorite Linux LiveCDs inside Windows with MobaLiveCD, it can always save a lot of time and provide a reliable alternative for a Linux testing environment. MobaLiveCD is available for free download from Downloadtube website.

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