can fusion boot from usb (3) drive?

[iawelch]

there was an old discussion about this, Re: Can Fusion boot from USB Drives?

this is useful to experiment with booting parameters and setup.

so I tried the plop boot manager, and although a starfield-background prompt allows me to select a device (incl usb), and although I know that my USB (3) stick is connected at this point, I still get on the next screen "Boot Error\nno boot device found, please retry it."

is anyone successfully booting USB sticks as of 2014 on vmware fusion 7.0.1?  if so, how?

/iaw

[ColoradoMarmot]

USB 3 support is dependent on the guest OS - you might try with a USB 2.0 device and see if that works.

[IvarREW]

This is a commonly asked question (googling results in dozens of hits over several years) and there is still no authoritative answer.

I have used plpbt.iso in the past, but this is a bit hacky. There is also the suggestion to use make the USB drive a physical disk, but I haven't made this work with Fusion.

Can we please have official documentation on how to boot a VM from a USB drive ?