Just Give Me the Beans!
On purchasing my new laptop I wiped the OS and installed Ubuntu 11.10. Now I want to install Windows 7 in VirtualBox. The problem is that the Windows 7 came on a USB drive and VirtualBox does not appear to allow for booting a USB device during startup.
Is there a workaround for this?
Last edited by kelvinator; March 17th, 2012 at 04:59 AM. Reason: Spelling correction
Spilled the Beans
Hey there kelvinator
Did you get anywhere with this? I am just trying to figure out how to do exactly that.
A Carafe of Ubuntu
Interesting problem!
Sounds like you would need to image the contents of the usb to an ISO
(brasero could be an option for that)
From there on... its pretty straight forward
Fresh Brewed Ubuntu
You can use a boot manager:
Download Plot boot manager and assign to the vm the Plot boot manager iso
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html
Then map your usb device to virtualbox
Boot the machine and a menu will appear, select USB.
Way Too Much Ubuntu
Are you sure that Virtualbox doesn't allow booting from an USB-device? Remember that you need to use the PUEL-version of Virtualbox along with some extras in order for USB-support to work at all...
Dark Roasted Junkie
I'm sure, it's something I have put a lot of time into researching.Originally Posted by na5h
In the end I went with the PLOP method mentioned above.
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