Virtualbox USB Boot: How to boot from USB sticks

With Virtualbox, you can also easily boot your operating system from the USB stick. We explain step by step how to do this in this guide.

Virtualbox: boot from the USB stick - so it'll work

1. First open the disk management from "Control Panel"> "Administrative Tools". There, write down the number of the USB stick, for example "2" for data carrier 2.
2. Now you have to press "Start" and enter "Command Prompt". Start this by right-clicking on the search result and selecting "Run as administrator".
3. Change here with the command "cd Program \ oracle \ VirtualBox" into the directory of Virtualbox.
4. Then enter the following command: "VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename"% USERPROFILE% "\. VirtualBox \ USB.vmdk-rawdisk \\. \ PhysicalDrive". Replace "disk number" with the actual number, in our example 2.
5. Confirm with [Enter]. Now you have to create a new machine in the virtual box. To do this, click "New" in VirtualBox and follow the instructions.
6. In the "Hard disk" item, select "Use existing hard disk" and enter the USB.vmdk file you just created.
7. After you have saved the changes, you can boot directly from the USB stick.

Tip: This is how you subsequently enlarge the hard disk in VirtualBox