How to boot a VMware Machine from USB Drive?

This tutorial will show you a quick method to boot from a usb flash drive in VMware virtual machine as naturally VMware have no support to boot from usb directly.

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So here is the solution:

 

Step-1: Plug your bootable USB drive as I have a windows 8.1 image ready USB.

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Step-2: Create a physical disk in VMware Settings and point to that USB drive.

 

Figure 2.1 : VM > Settings

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Figure 2.2  : Add “haddisk” and point to the USB

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Figure 2.3 : USB drive Physical id is ‘1’

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Figure 2.4 : Point to the USB drive.

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Figure 2.5 : Click Finish

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Step-4: Make sure in the BIOS ‘disk1’ is selected as 1st boot device.

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Finally we are able to boot from usb drive in Wmvware.

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