Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for copying an image of a medium of a first processing device to a virtual medium of a second processing device. Virtual machine configuration information may be created based on hardware configuration information from the first processing device. The image and the virtual machine configuration information may be copied, or written, to the virtual medium. Instructions may be provided to the second processing device for launching a virtual machine to execute an operating system copied from the image to the virtual medium. At least one executable application copied from the image to the virtual medium may be executed by the virtual machine launched on the second processing device. In some embodiments, the second processing device may provide remote access to the virtual machine for one or more remote processing devices.