H@L0_F00 Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 awesome work. I just have one question. it worked for me for a couple of boots but now it's not finding my drive. It's saying no boot devices found. I apologize if this an obvious question but it's 3:00am and my red bull is wearing off. thanks edit: tried it on a windows laptop (i do all my work on a mac with W7) I guess there's a problem with the VM because my Multipass is working. I'll look into it more tomorrow. It sounds like you may have booted the VM with another USB medium inserted. VMware auto-connects the last used USB device when it's set to auto-connect a USB drive. You can try to connect it manually: VMware Player: 1. Boot the VM 2. Go to "Devices" found at the top of the window 3. Find and select your flash drive from the menu 4. Click "Connect (Disconnect from host)" VMware Workstation: 1. Boot the VM 2. Go to "VM" found at the top of the window 3. Browse to "Removable Devices" 4. Find and select your flash drive 5. Click "Connect (Disconnect from host)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numb3rs Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Can't you just use the free, open source, cross platform, and just plain awesome Virtualbox? Not sure if anyone answered this question, I didn't read through so sorry if I am creating an echo here. You cannot use VirtualBox because Sun's Virtual Box does not support booting from USB. I tried a few work arounds mounting it as a floppy and still got nothing. I looked into it and Sun doesn't plan on adding the support because there is not large benefit from the time it would take to implement it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 VMware doesnt support booting from USB either - that's what PloP is for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted October 4, 2009 Author Share Posted October 4, 2009 200+ downloads! I'm also trying to figure out a way to use QEMU as it is said to be possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bl0ndynek Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Actually I boot from usb in VirtualBox it's go like this: my usb is format as one partition fat32. i got grub2 on it pendrive is sdb 1. unmount pendrive sudo umount /dev/sdb1 2.Changed permissions sudo chmod 777 /dev/sdb1 sudo chmod 777 /dev/sdb 3. Created rawdisk: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/mnt/new_usb.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb -register 4. Set permissions for new_usb.vmdk sudo chmod 777 /dem/mnt/new_usb.vmdk and now when I mount in VirtualBox new_usbvmdk as disk, umount pendrive in USB section And it works :] I use VirtualBox PUEL but I think that normal VirtualBox shuld work. For use just make changes in grub.cfg, copy iso to pendrive. unmount run VirtualBox and test :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mleo2003 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Saw this on lifehacker, had to show that someone else has a solution too: http://lifehacker.com/5356882/mobalivecd-u...b-drive-support BTW, the MovaLiveCD thing is based on QEMU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Actually I boot from usb in VirtualBox it's go like this: ... I've hardly messed with VirtualBox, and it was only on a Windows machine, but it seems like you're just making an image of your flash drive and booting from that, or am I wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bl0ndynek Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I've hardly messed with VirtualBox, and it was only on a Windows machine, but it seems like you're just making an image of your flash drive and booting from that, or am I wrong? I don't make any image. This is the Linux way. When you plug pendrive into linux machine it shows as /dev/sdx (where 'x' is {a,b,...}) so I actually mount device not an image. What I'm doing is just make any one (in this VirtualBox) can write and read from it and generate vmdk file for it (It's little file some KB, where my pendrive is 8GB). Anyway, I do it just once. As long as my pendrive is showing in my system as /dev/sdb I don't have to generate new vmdk file. Just make changes on pendrive and run VirtualBox. One thing when I make changes ofcourse I have to mount somewhere my device(or hal do it for me),but when I want to boot form it in Virtualbox I have to unmount it. And that's it. I hope now it's more clear and sorry for my English it's not my native language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xzel Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 God, thanks been looking for this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 I don't make any image. This is the Linux way. When you plug pendrive into linux machine it shows as /dev/sdx (where 'x' is {a,b,...}) so I actually mount device not an image. What I'm doing is just make any one (in this VirtualBox) can write and read from it and generate vmdk file for it (It's little file some KB, where my pendrive is 8GB). Anyway, I do it just once. As long as my pendrive is showing in my system as /dev/sdb I don't have to generate new vmdk file. Just make changes on pendrive and run VirtualBox. One thing when I make changes ofcourse I have to mount somewhere my device(or hal do it for me),but when I want to boot form it in Virtualbox I have to unmount it. And that's it. I hope now it's more clear and sorry for my English it's not my native language Yeah, I know how Linux mounts drives. I just thought that with the command "-rawdisk /dev/sdb" mad a rawdisk image of the drive as ~/mnt/new_usb.vmdk. That's cool though. If you've tried my VM, does your solution with VirtualBox run faster than mine with VMware? Your English is pretty good for it being a foreign language, by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renfro Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 This is how I did it in VitualBox under Windows: Go to the VirtualBox directory under c:\Program Files\Sun and run: VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename \usb.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 -register This creates a virtual rawdisk pointing to PhysicalDrive1 on your Windows machine (hopefully your USB drive), check the position of your drive (the number) in Windows Disk Management. The option "-register" adds the newly created drive (usb.vmdk) as a drive option available to any machine in VB. Have Fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hA1d3R Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-a-usb-fl...-in-virtualbox/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mental_Atom Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Talk about long winded... download this (it may need renaming as an exe) and you just select "start directly from a usb flash drive" http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/en/download....928da26683917dc P.S It needs administrator privileges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~JC~ Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 how do you do this so PLoP is just he the boot manager for the virtual machine, and not the default boot manager for your entire system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 how do you do this so PLoP is just he the boot manager for the virtual machine, and not the default boot manager for your entire system? PLoP is used because VMware doesn't (as of yet) support booting from USB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agni Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 You can boot USB in VirtualBOX without plop. Check this http://agnipulse.com/2009/07/boot-your-usb...-in-virtualbox/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deevd Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Thanks allot H4lo_Foo, this helped me allot to test everything out and find bugs in my menu.lst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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