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I have two flash drive, one with Slax installed and another for Android x86 Live installed, but they do not boot in my laptop (in my work they boot perfectly).
I can boot from some live CDs/DVDs or its ISO files using VirtualBox, but I cannot do it for live flash drives - I put the flash drives and start a VirtualBox without any virtual HD, but VirtualBox does not recognize them as boot options, as it does for CDs/DVDs.
Any ideas? Any alternatives if VirtualBox does not support it?
Edit1: I'm using Windows (Windows 7) but I would like to know how to do it in Linux (Ubuntu, for example) too.
USB boot isn't supported in VirtualBox. – Joe Internet – 2011-08-02T20:59:29.167
any alternative? – kokbira – 2011-08-03T02:00:13.457
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You can try this boot manager... http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html. If you extract the file archive, you'll find a plpbt.iso file that you can set as your boot medium. This will give a bootloader with the usb option. If your vm is correctly configured for usb (you may need to disable 2.0 support), and your usb stick is already correctly configured (ie, it has a bootable os installed, and you know that it works), then it should boot in the vm.
– Joe Internet – 2011-08-03T04:36:16.457@Joe Internet, I did not test it but it can be a solution for other VM managers. For VirtualBox I do prefer harrymc solution. – kokbira – 2012-04-12T01:32:54.297
2@JoeInternet: Unfortunately Plop doesn't seem to work with USB 2.0, so it'll be very slow. – Mechanical snail – 2012-08-21T07:59:51.793
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Related: http://superuser.com/questions/324996/installing-an-operating-system-to-a-usb-drive-and-booting-to-it-all-within-vir
– Mechanical snail – 2012-08-21T08:00:57.780