Live11 is a new solution created by the developer of Tiny 11 that allows running the operating system in memory without having to install it on the PC . Sounds like Linux to you?
'Live CD' or 'Live USB' with Linux have been used for decades. The basic idea is to create a medium that, inserted in an optical drive or a flash drive inserted in a USB port, allows us to test an operating system without having to install it. These types of formats are also used to run troubleshooting /rescue or other security tools, as there are times when this is the only way to kill malware that starts before the operating system is installed.
These "live disks" are ideal for testing fully functional GNU distributions without touching the host system. If with Linux there are many, with Windows there are fewer and in fact, this Windows 11 Live11 is the first 'Live DVD' with Windows 11 because it has been designed to run in RAM, through a VHD of only 4 GB . Of course, you can also copy the ISO to a USB drive or SD card and run it from there if you're no longer using optical media.
This development has been carried out on the basis of Tiny 11 , the reduced version of Windows 11 aimed at modest computers, which has now been prepared to run in 'Live' format. The author claims to have used the GrubDOS bootloader and the SCSI driver, SVBus .
Live11 is in development
Its creators describe it as a "proof of concept" and warn of several problems that development still has, such as: to take into account, including:
- It only boots to legacy MBR/BIOS devices. (This will be fixed in a later version)
- Virtualbox VMs don't work because they are rebooted after the "device installation" phase. Because this is a non-persistent image, all progress is lost and as such is left in a boot loop. It must be said that other virtual machine clients such as VMware and Hyper-V do work.
- Although the image only uses 4 GB of RAM, it needs twice as much to load and therefore only works on machines with at least 8 GB of RAM.
If you're interested, you can download the ISO directly from the Internet Archive . There is also a version for torrent networks. Very interesting development, but which still has to be improved.