Clone bootable USB to VirtualBox

[Paulha]

I am running VirtualBox 6.1.6 on a Windows10 host.
From my company I have a bootable USB stick which connects to the companies VPN server.
The USB consists of 4 partitions (10MB FAT EFI boot, 48MB primary partition, 1001MB primary partition, 2.70GB unassigned)
When booting from stick it will start an Ubuntu Linux system, so I assume the both primary partitions are RAW or EXT (doesnt show in diskmanager)

What I want is to clone the stick to my host and boot it from within VirtualBox.
My knowledge of Linux and programming is zero to none
Is there an easy way? I couldnt find anything so far.

Thanks in advance
Paul

[mpack]

I would image the USB drive using Disk2VHD, convert the VHD to VDI using CloneVDI, then build a new VM around the VDI.

For clarity: the VirtualBox BIOS has no USB support, so you can't just boot from the USB stick. I don't think you can boot from a virtual USB stick either.

[Paulha]

@mpack:
Thanks for the quick reply.

Problem with Disk2VHD (found this one earlier) is that you can only select volumes.
The 2 primary partitions, which probably hold the OS doenst have driveletters assigned (see image, sorry for the link)
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Regards
Paul

[mpack]

Disk2VHD definitely allows you to select drives (as its name implies), otherwise it wouldn't have a purpose, and we wouldn't have suggested it.

[Paulha]

@mpack,
I have used the following to achieve it (you set me on the right track)!
Create a RAW image using the free tool HDDRawCopy
Converted the IMG to VDI using the VirtualBox tool VBoxManage
Linked the .vdi to a new machine and success!

Thanks for the support
Regards,
Paul

[mpack]

topic may be closed.

Closed? Why would I do that? In fact further contributions from anyone to this discussion are welcome.