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This document provides steps to boot a USB flash drive from within VirtualBox by mapping the virtual machine to the USB drive. It explains how to identify the USB disk number in Windows disk management, create a raw virtual disk from the USB, and select this disk when creating a new virtual machine in VirtualBox.

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How To Boot From A USB Flash Drive in VirtualBox Pen Drive Linux

This document provides steps to boot a USB flash drive from within VirtualBox by mapping the virtual machine to the USB drive. It explains how to identify the USB disk number in Windows disk management, create a raw virtual disk from the USB, and select this disk when creating a new virtual machine in VirtualBox.

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How to Boot From a USB


Flash Drive in VirtualBox
How to boot from a USB Flash Drive in VirtualBox. This process will allow you to run your Portable
Linux from the USB Flash Drive or external hard drive while still running from a Windows, Linux, or
Mac OS X Host. By default VirtualBox does not support USB Boot. However, this is easily attainable
by mapping a virtual machine (.vmdk file) to the USB Drive.

VirtualBox Website: https://www.virtualbox.org

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Boot a USB Flash Drive from VirtualBox


(Windows Host)
1. Download and run VirtualBox (Installing to the default path).
2. You'll need to use the command line to perform steps 3-6,
To open a command prompt;
1.) From the Windows '⌕ Type here to search' box, type
cmd.exe

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2.) Then click Run as administrator

3. At the command prompt, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter to


open the Windows Disk Management Tool.

diskmgmt.msc

Then, Identify your USB Disk #

4. Now, back at the command line, type

cd %programfiles%\oracle\virtualbox

5. Replacing # with your USB Disk number from step 3, type

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VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename


"%USERPROFILE%"\.VirtualBox\usb.vmdk -rawdisk
\\.\PhysicalDrive#

6. To start VirtualBox as Admin, type

start virtualbox

7. Click New, and then proceed to Create a New Virtual Machine.

8. When prompted for a Virtual Hard Disk, tick use existing hard
disk. Then, browse to your %USERPROFILE%\.VirtualBox
folder, and select the usb.vmdk file.

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9. Once done creating your New Virtual Machine, click Start.

If all goes well, VirtualBox should now be emulating, booting, and


running your USB device from within Windows.

Getting Persistence to work in


VirtualBox (Windows)
At first the USB flash drive might not work exactly like it does when
booted natively. Things like Ubuntu's casper persistent feature won't
work. Some distributions might not even boot, or will boot with
errors. This is because the volumes on the device are mounted by
Windows, preventing VirtualBox from gaining full access. In order to
fix these issues, you can use a tool called LockDismount. Then
simply run the tool (using the following steps), prior to starting the
Virtual Machine that is tied to your USB.

1. Download the LockDismount tool

2. Launch the tool right before starting your VirtualBox VM

3. Select your USB from the drop-list, then Press Lock it!

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(optionally you can check Force Dismount)

Now your flash drive should be able to boot in VirtualBox exactly as


it does when booted natively on a physical machine. �

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