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Great tip how-to boot from USB stick inside of VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 23, 2017

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A tip pointed by Ivo Beerens. By using my RSS Reader to stay updated on blogs in the Virtualization Sphere I checked this post from Ivo. It's a great tip. What's about?

Basically when you want to test ESXi 4 installation to the USB Stick  you'll want to follow my post, which I've done in the past and that's it.

But if you want to test unattended installation of ESXi on USB stick then you would want to boot your VM which is executed in your VMware Workstation, from an USB stick too.Well you can't. Even the version 7 of VMware Workstation does not support that.

Here comes the help tip from Ivo. Basically what do you have to do is a work arround.

01. Download boot manager from PLoP
02. Use the Iso in the boot manager as a boot device to boot your VM
03. Add an USB adapter to your VM (if not already done).

add-usb-and-enable
03. Insert your USB stick with ESXi  installed in it.
03. When your VM boots from that ISO, just select USB from the menu.

Boot your VM in VMware Workstation from USB with plop boot manager

Well not all the credit goes to IVO, because the original help provided was from Ulli Hankeln from sanbarrow.com. -:)

Enjoy… -:)

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| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Boot Manager, Boot USB VMware workstation, Desktop Virtualization, PLOP

About Vladan SEGET

This website is maintained by Vladan SEGET. Vladan is as an Independent consultant, professional blogger, vExpert x16, Veeam Vanguard x9, VCAP-DCA/DCD, ESX Virtualization site has started as a simple bookmarking site, but quickly found a large following of readers and subscribers.

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Comments

  1. lacmac says

    October 27, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Worked fine! Thanks for the tip.

  2. Vladan SEGET says

    December 10, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    Your Welcome… -:)

  3. Vladan SEGET says

    December 10, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    You are welcome… -:)

  4. Erwin says

    February 17, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    WORKED!!1 thank you very much

  5. Edgar Catalán says

    April 2, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    do you know how can i apply this in VMware player??

  6. Andrews Arokiam says

    May 6, 2010 at 7:32 am

    Thankyou very much. I was looking for this for a long while. Once again Thank You.

  7. Yassine Souabni says

    June 20, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    That worked for me thanks 🙂

    Now I can boot ESXi from USB stick within Workstation 7.1

  8. Zee says

    June 30, 2010 at 12:19 am

    Thanks, You have just saved so much reasearch I was doing to boot different system from USB in VMware workstation. Thank so much!

  9. Lee says

    July 24, 2010 at 9:40 am

    Thanks, this helped me with an OSx86 VMware build

  10. Thomas says

    October 11, 2010 at 1:48 am

    Saved my day!

  11. Xx says

    May 11, 2012 at 9:07 am

    VERY nice saved my day. GREAT find!

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