Reincarnating PCs with portable SoulPads
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
ICSENG '05 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Systems Engineering
MOBILE: a MOBile instructional laboratory environment for hands-on information technology education
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Information technology education
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We present our experiences with a customizable portable virtual machine (CPVM) environment that makes it possible for students and professors to develop a customized, fully loaded, fully functional virtual machine that they can run on any computer that has a USB port or an ftp client without compromising the host. We also make available to students and faculty a copy of a portable virtual machine which provides compilers, window managers, and IDEs as well as the virtual operating system. This copy is identical to the environment found in our labs. CPVM has allowed students to use their personal Windows computers as if they were the Linux machines in the lab without having to install Linux. It has also enabled professors to effectively take their office environments with them to remote locations such as conferences. CPVM is composed of free, open-source software, and is available via anonymous ftp.