Maschine von USB Stick in Virtualbox installieren

[Alooha]

Hallo,

Wie kriege ich VB dazu, erst mal einen USB Stick zu erkennen, und eine Maschine vom Stick zu installieren?

Ich habe irgendwo gelesen, dazu müssten die Guest Additions installiert sein, aber die werden, wenn ich mich nicht irre, in der Maschine, die aber erst installiert werden soll, installiert, und nicht in VB selbst!?
Oder liege ich da falsch?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Alooha

[scottgus1]

Guest Additions are not needed for booting from USB.

Virtualbox's legacy BIOS does not support booting from USB.

Virtualbox's EFI BIOS does support booting from USB, but I personally don't know how to do it.

There are web-searchable tutorials to use the USB stick under Raw Disk Access and legacy BIOS to fake Virtualbox into thinking the USB stick is a real virtual hard drive, then the VM will boot from it. But Raw Disk Access is an experts-only feature, and we don't show folks how to do it, since the process can destroy their data if done wrong.

The safest and easiest solution: download the ISO instead of using the USB stick.

[Alooha]

The Iso is on the USB stick and I tried to install the machine from that iso. So it is not a matter of booting from the USB stick.

[scottgus1]

That's good. You can simply point the VM's CD drive at the ISO file, and the VM will boot from it if it's a bootable ISO.

[Alooha]

Ok, but that's not possible because the USB stick is not reecognized!

[scottgus1]

The Iso is on the USB stick

I took this to mean that when you put the USB stick in the host and open its folder window, then you see an ISO file which can be mounted in a virtual CD drive.

If you really mean that the ISO has been converted to a bootable USB and you see the bootable installer files in the USB's folder, instead of an actual "filename.iso" file, then you have a bootable USB stick, not an ISO. The methods above at viewtopic.php?f=5&t=106326#p519596 are required.

[Alooha]

The .iso is on the stick as downloaded, the stick is not bootable.
If I copy it to the hard disk, it has to be copied to a common folder?

[scottgus1]

You could copy the iso to any folder that the logged-on account has read access to.

the USB stick is not reecognized!

Does this mean that the USB stick does not appear on the host computer?

[mpack]

Is the OP perhaps grabbing ownership of the USB stick for the VM? That would be double trouble.

If yes: you don't assign ownership of a host drive just because it contains an ISO file. It is the host that needs access to the ISO, not the VM. The VM will see the contents as a virtual CD drive.