

Now start the VirtualBox on your system and click New to start Create Virtual Machine wizard. Read more about VBoxManage command line utility. # VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdc -filename /opt/USB-Boot-Disk.vmdk Now use VBoxManage (VirtualBox command line) command to create raw vmdk file using USB ( /dev/sdc) using following command at desired location. Unmount mounted USB drive using following command # umount /dev/sdc1 In my case the USB drive name is /dev/sdc. Now attach your bootable USB drive to your system and find the name of USB attached. Install VirtualBox on CentOS, RHEL & Fedora.Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint.You can visit following links for prerequisites.

So if you have a bootable USB drive then this article will help you to how to create VirtualBox vm using bootable USB.įor this example, I have already created a bootable USB of Ubuntu. Booting a physical machine using USB is much easier, but VirtualBox does not provides direct way to select boot from USB.
