| 摘要 |
<p>A user's computing environment <102> is imaged and copied to a transportable storage medium <112> and virtualization technologies are utilized to allow the booting of the transportable storage medium <112> on a host computer system <122>. A virtual computing environment manager <110> may exploit virtual machines, micro kernels, boot loaders, and embedded driver sets to allow the transportable storage medium <112> to be bootable and executable regardless of the hardware platform to which the transportable storage medium <112> is attached. The user's computing environment <102> is instantiated on a virtual machine implemented on the host computer system <122> rather than using, altering, or otherwise effecting the applications, settings, or data on the host computer system <122>. Thus, users can easily transport their entire computing environment <102> among various hardware platforms on any host computer system <122>.</p> |
