Boot from USB drive in VMWare Workstation 7?

[riahc3]

Hey

I was wondering how can I boot from a USB drive in VMWare Workstation 7. I set a new HDD (SCSI) as a physical drive and the physical drive is the USB drive but it still does not boot. How can I get it to work? Thanks.

[continuum]

VMware does not directly support booting from USB.

Workaround is to use the Plop-bootmanager - google finds it.

Then you boot from Plop-iso and that the enables to boot from USB




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[riahc3]

Well progress:

I found a new "SCSI" entry in the BIOS and selected that to boot first.

But VM still complains saying "Operation on file
.\PhysicalDrive2 failed."

[continuum]

you can not use physical drives if your host is Vista or higher easily - check "jokkes" documents for a workaround




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[riahc3]

VMware does not directly support booting from USB.

Workaround is to use the Plop-bootmanager - google finds it.

Then you boot from Plop-iso and that the enables to boot from USB<br><br><br><br><br>___________________________________

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lol..........I actually found this software right after hitting reply on the post under you.....

The problem is the site seems to be down or something and I cannot find another link anywhere.

Do you have a link or a copy you could attach (even if it is not the latest version)?

[riahc3]

The jokkes document is not for me as the offline disk command is not for removable media (such as mine)

[WoodyZ]

The problem is the site seems to be down or something and I cannot find another link anywhere.

Do you have a link or a copy you could attach (even if it is not the latest version)?

The site is not down at this moment as I just downloaded the http://download.plop.at/files/bootmngr/plpbt-5.0.8.zip file.

[riahc3]

Yes, I had to use a online proxy to access the site. Strange.

Anyhow, this did not solve my problem. I selected the USB option in the menu and it seems to find it but only a black screen with alot of "..........." show up and it stays there. Doesnt do anything else.

[continuum]

explain what you tried exactly - is the USB-disk bootable ? - can you boot it directly ?




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[riahc3]

Yes, it is in fact bootable. Just tried on a real system.

Well I loaded the ISO on Dameon Tools and set in the virtual BIOS for the first thing to boot off of is the letter which my virtual drive on Dameon Tools is. I load up the VM and it boots to the menu giving options to boot off. I select USB, it seems to load it and then it just displays a black screen with "........."

The USB is in no moment accessed as It has a red/write light and it never blinked.

[continuum]

daemon tools ? - you can just assign the iso directly ... thats what I do.

Can you post your vmx-file ?

You may run into problems with timing - sometimes it does not work the first time - then I reboot from the Plop-bootmanager and usually next time it works.

If you are unsure wether you proceed correctly - create a video and zip it and attach it here - if it is too large send via email




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