On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Dick Davies
<rasput...@hellooperator.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
<snip>
VirtualBox isnt the only project that has problems booting from a usb drive.
The syslinux project has been discussing their usb boot woes off and
on for a couple of months.
The short version of booting from usb is that there are about 5
different standards out there for doing so
usb-fdd boot (usb floppy)
usb-hdd boot (usb hard disk)
just to name two.
They are all esoterically different and hard to implement as you need
to detect the hardware to know which code branch to follow.
This coupled with the fact that a VBox vm has to be running in order
to intercept the usb connection and transfer that device into the vm
makes the boot timing difficult if not impossible.
As for me, I'd just as soon the VirtualBox developers not do usb boot
at all, as opposed to only doing it half-way. There are plenty of
other features that can be implemented without the headache this will
cause.
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