Virtual machine usb boot is a portable tool which makes it easy to boot a virtual machine - virtualbox or qemu - from a usb key setup is simple we clicked "add", entered a name for our project, chose the virtualbox vm to be launched (these were automatically detected and presented in a list), and the usb drive to boot from. Download virtual machine usb boot. Now just select the virtual machine in the list, click start to boot from usb in virtualbox if you want to boot uefi in virtualbox then go to setting > system and check the enable efi (special oses only) check box virtual machine usb boot using virtual machine usb boot will support writing data to physical disk from virtual machine.
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Boot the virtual machine and it should boot the operating system from your usb drive, just as if you were booting it on normal computer note that the usb device must be the first hard disk in your virtual machine or virtualbox won’t boot from it. Virtualbox was not designed to boot from a usb, but what if you want to boot from a usb flash drive in virtualbox? well there is a easy way to boot from a usb in a vm. its called virtual machine. With this application it's easy to add a real drive (usb or other) into a virtual machine (virtualbox or qemu) and boot from it. it will temporary separate the drive from the host os (dismount it) and, after the virtual machine is closed, it will mount it back..
