[ale] how do I boot a Virtualbox vm from a USB HDD

[James Sumners]

VirtualBox does not support booting from a USB drive. You can do some
hackery to do so[1]. But why don't you just copy the VM to your local
machine?


[1] - http://www.twm-kd.com/computers/software/boot-virtualbox-machine-from-a-usb-flash-drive/

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> I may not be able to experiment with this for a few days, but I wanted to
> go ahead and put this out to see what you guys think.  Thanks in advance
> for responses.  I need to capture screen images to work on the slides
> mentioned in the Linux Fest post above.  I need to capture them from a
> virtual machine running in Virtualbox inside of Ubuntu 10.04.  Now, I know
> I can do that by hitting print screen.  The catch is that the system I'm
> testing is too large for CD or for the virtual HDD inside the virtual
> machine.  I have to boot the virtual machine from an external USB HDD
> attached to the host, but the virtual machine boot screen only allows
> booting it from the virtual HDD, CD, or network.  Any idea how I can get
> the virtual machine to boot from USB?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
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