- #VIRTUALBOX BOOT FROM USB DRIVE HOW TO#
- #VIRTUALBOX BOOT FROM USB DRIVE ZIP FILE#
- #VIRTUALBOX BOOT FROM USB DRIVE ISO#
In our case, it's a bootable USB key of Ultimate Boot CD. This is an easy way to test if your bootable USB drive is really. If all goes well, your virtual machine will start on your bootable USB key. You can make QEMU, VMware Server or Oracle VirtualBox boot from the host USB drive. Plop Boot Manager searches for your USB key and attempts to boot from it. The Portable-VirtualBox dialog box displays. Navigate to the Portable-VirtualBox folder and double-click the Portable-VirtualBox.exe file. A Portable-VirtualBox folder is created on your USB drive. Now, your virtual machine arrives on the "Plop Boot Manager". Run the executable you downloaded and extract the contents of the file to your external USB drive. Then, go to the "Exit" tab to save the changes and exit the BIOS. To do this, select the desired option and press the "+" key on the keyboard. In the BIOS "Boot" tab, move the virtual CD/DVD drive "CD-ROM Drive" and/or the floppy drive "Legacy Floppy Drives" to the top of the list. Then, start on the virtual machine BIOS to change the boot order of the virtual machine. If the floppy drive is not part of your virtual machine, click "Add", then add a "Floppy Drive" to get it. The following covers the process of turning VirtualBox VHD (V irtual H ard D isk) Images or VDI (V irtual D isk) I mages into Bootable Physical Disks.
#VIRTUALBOX BOOT FROM USB DRIVE HOW TO#
Go to System > Motherboard > Boot Order Select an entry (e.g Hard Disk, USB, or DVD drive) and use the arrow keys to change its position: You can also remove a device from the boot menu, by unticking the corresponding checkbox. How to Convert a Virtual Machine VHD VDI into a Bootable USB. Or preferably use the bootable floppy "plpbt.img" to leave the CD/DVD drive free. Open VirtualBox Select the guest OS, but don't launch it. Select the "plpbt.iso" file for the CD/DVD drive.
#VIRTUALBOX BOOT FROM USB DRIVE ZIP FILE#
Once "Plop Boot Manager" downloaded, unzip the downloaded zip file and go to the settings of your virtual machine. If your virtual machine uses EFI firmware instead of BIOS (PhoenixBIOS in the case of VMware), it will not work. Warning : this boot manager is not compatible with EFI.
#VIRTUALBOX BOOT FROM USB DRIVE ISO#
One of its advantages is that it's available in iso format (bootable CD) and img format (bootable floppy). The 1st technique to boot on a bootable USB key or a bootable external hard drive consists in using the "Plop Boot Manager" boot manager. Then, go to the "Boot" tab of the BIOS of your virtual machine.Īs you can see, it's not possible to boot directly on an USB key.