That sounds like it'll be closest to what I want , thanks Richard.
Quite surprised there's no native support ("VBoxManage modifyvm foo -boot usb")
for this though; think I might file an RFE.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Brian J. Murrell
> <br...@interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 22:39 +0000, Dick Davies wrote:
>>> I wondered if I have any way of booting a Virtualbox guest from USB,
>>
>> No. Search the archives for the details.
>>
>
> Several other links disagree with you and pretty much follow the idea
> of using a raw disk image as I previously suggested. Unfortuanetly I
> didn't realize that the vbox-users mailing list apparently doesn't set
> the reply-to field since it went to his personal email instead of the
> list.
>
> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=27453
> http://agnipulse.com/2009/07/boot-your-usb-drive-in-virtualbox/ (This
> one is for windows but the same idea applies)
> http://blog.alt42.co.uk/2009/08/24/virtualbox-usb-boot/ (pretty much the same)
>
> Richard
>
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