I set the permissions to 777 for both the image and the stick, created a VM, set the .vmdk file to boot first using the SATA order.
When I Start the VM, I expected to see it boot into the USB image.
Instead, I got an error that the .vmdk could not be opened"
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine lion.
Could not open the medium '/Users/john/Desktop/usbstick.vmdk'.
VD: error VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND opening image file '/Users/john/Desktop/usbstick.vmdk' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MediumWrap
Interface: IMedium {4afe423b-43e0-e9d0-82e8-ceb307940dda}
Any ideas in either the issue at hand or the overall approach greatly appreciated. I'm running Version 5.0.18 r106667 with the Extension Pack, under 10.11.4 on an iMac (27-inch, Late 2012).
thanks much