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The vboxmanage.exe tool is bundled with VirtualBox.You don’t have to download it separately Section 9.6 in the VirtualBox manual contains all the details required to attach a physical disk to a virtual machine.Using the vboxmanage.exe tool you can create a tiny vmdk file which points to your real USB drive (Physical Drive/Disk).You can attach this tiny vmdk to your virtual machine.A vmdk file is a virtual hard disk file which can be used with VirtualBox and VMWare. The Extension pack adds support for USB 2.0 devices. In this article I will show you how you can boot a bootable usb drive in Virtual Machine created by VirtualBox.You can easily test bootable USB drives within Windows or Linux and without restarting using this method.ĭownload and install the latest version Virtual Box and VirtualBox Extension pack from This is the continuation of my previous article Test bootable USB drive without restarting your computer.You can read more about bootable usb drives in that article. However you can attach a physical drive to a virtual machine using a command line tool that is bundled with Virtual Box.You can then boot your virtual machine from the attached Physical drive. The GUI of VirtualBox does not have an option to boot a USB drive (Physical Drive) in a virtual machine.

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