For example, here the USB drive is Disk 1. Look for the USB drive in the Disk Management window and note its disk number. Press Windows Key + R, type diskmgmt.msc into the Run dialog, and press Enter to open the Disk Management window. You’ll need to use the same sort of VBoxManage command to create a file representing the raw disk, but you’ll need to specify the path to the disk device on your Linux or Mac system. First, connect the USB drive containing the operating system you want to boot to your computer. The process is basically the same on Linux and Mac host systems. Be sure the USB drive is the first disk in the list. If you want to install an operating system from the USB drive, you’ll need to add a hard disk later from within the virtual machine’s settings window. In other words, you can’t simply create a standard virtual machine and attach the USB device later.
Note that the USB device must be the first hard disk in your virtual machine or VirtualBox won’t boot from it. Execute the file and install it in a preferred location. The Virtual Box executable file will start downloading on your computer.
VirtualBox supports openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise) and Xandros. If you’re a Linux or OpenSolaris user, you can also obtain a copy using your software package manager program. When you’re asked to select a hard disk, select Use an existing virtual hard drive file, click the button to browse for the file, and navigate to it - that’s C:\usb.vmdk if you didn’t select your own path.īoot the virtual machine and it should boot the operating system from your USB drive, just as if you were booting it on normal computer. Go to the Virtual Box website and select the Windows Hosts option from the list. VirtualBox lets you run Windows 7 on a Linux system.
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