Now click Create button.Īt this stage your virtual machine has been created successfully. This will attach this virtual disk with new virtual machine. In this step select Use an existing virtual hard disk file option and select vmdk file created in last step. Now select the amount of memory (in MB) to allocated to new virtual machine and click Next. Enter name of your machine ans select proper operating system type and version. Now start the VirtualBox on your system and click New to start Create Virtual Machine wizard.

Read more about VBoxManage command line utility.

# VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdc -filename /opt/USB-Boot-Disk.vmdk Now use VBoxManage (VirtualBox command line) command to create raw vmdk file using USB ( /dev/sdc) using following command at desired location. Unmount mounted USB drive using following command # umount /dev/sdc1 In my case the USB drive name is /dev/sdc. Now attach your bootable USB drive to your system and find the name of USB attached.

Install VirtualBox on CentOS, RHEL & Fedora.

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint.

You can visit following links for prerequisites. So if you have a bootable USB drive then this article will help you to how to create VirtualBox vm using bootable USB.įor this example, I have already created a bootable USB of Ubuntu. Booting a physical machine using USB is much easier, but VirtualBox does not provides direct way to select boot from USB.

Virtualbox boot from usb on linux host