https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/tags/boot/Recent content in Boot on Remko's BlogHugoen-usMon, 14 Mar 2011 12:59:53 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2011/03/14/booting-a-virtual-machine-from-usb-drive/Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:59:53 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2011/03/14/booting-a-virtual-machine-from-usb-drive/<p>I wanted to boot a Virtual Machine from an USB Stick but even though you can Connect USB devices to VMWare you cannot boot from it.</p> <p>It can be done however using a boot manager that is able to perform a boot from USB media. I used <a href="http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#download" target="_blank">Plop Boot Manager</a>.</p> <p>Download one of the stable releases (I used <a href="http://download.plop.at/files/bootmngr/plpbt-5.0.11-2.zip" target="_blank">5.0.11-2</a>) and extract plpbt.img from the archive and mount this (don&rsquo;t forget to select the Connect at power on option) and when booting press Esc for the Boot Menu.</p> <p><a class="glightbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-1545" href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/image6.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="background-image: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="image" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/image_thumb6.webp" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="147" /></a></p> <p>This would be a good time to Connect the USB device to the Virtual Machine, right click the USB device in the bottom bar:</p> <p><a class="glightbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-1545" href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/image7.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="background-image: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="image" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/image_thumb7.webp" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="52" /></a></p> <p>And select the Connect option:</p> <p><a class="glightbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-1545" href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/image8.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="background-image: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="image" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/image_thumb8.webp" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="70" /></a></p> <p>Click OK on the warning message:</p> <p><a class="glightbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-1545" href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/image9.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="background-image: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="image" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/image_thumb9.webp" border="0" alt="image" width="244" height="89" /></a></p>