Steps to Boot a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox from USB with MAC OS X host
This article shows how to boot a virtual machine from USB on VirtualBox with MAC OS X host, Mavericks OS and Mac Pro laptop.įor this purpose, we first need to make a VMDK file based on the attached portable flash drive and then mount the VMDK as virtual machine’s first bootable disk and then boot it. Even the famous VMware and VirtualBox don’t provide this functionality. You may sometimes require booting a virtual machine from USB to perform this action, but you are limited by the functionality of desktop virtualization software. Most of the desktop virtualization software don’t support installing a guest operating system on VirtualBox ↱ as a built-in feature yet. And Click on Start.How to Boot a Virtual Machine from USB in VirtualBox (Guide) Now Select the VM name and Drive by clicking on it. Now it will show a warning of physical disk boot priority. So I select “Windows 7”.Īnd then select your inserted USB from Drive to add and boot the drop-down menu. As I am booting & installing windows 7 from USB. Now select the VM name according to your choice. Now insert your bootable USB drive from which you want to boot an Operating system in a virtual box. And Open it by right-clicking on it & selecting Run as Administrator. Run Virtual Machine USB Boot toolĭownload & install this boot tool from the given link.
And if you don’t you can follow this guide to create a virtual machine on Virtualbox. Download Link…įirst Open the Virtualbox by right-clicking on it & selecting Run as Administrator.Īnd I hope you have already created a virtual machine for booting. In this tutorial, I will be using a tool to Boot an OS from a USB Drive in Virtualbox called Virtual Machine USB Boot. thing a bootable USB with OS of your choices like macOS or windows.
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