Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#2935 new enhancement
BIOS support for booting from usb devices — at Version 9
| Reported by: | Dhamodharan.P | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.6 |
| Keywords: | boot usb | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description (last modified by )
Currently Boot Order has CD/DVD-ROM, Floppy, HDD, Network as options.
It would be nice if boot from USB is also available as an option.
Thanks.
Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
follow-up: 7 comment:3 by , 14 years ago
Just a comment: Of course I see the advantage of booting from an USB device. But it will require a lot of additional code in the VirtualBox BIOS which we (at least currently) don't intend to implement.
comment:5 by , 14 years ago
| Guest type: | Windows → other |
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| Host type: | Windows → other |
| priority: | major → minor |
| Version: | VirtualBox 2.1.0 → VirtualBox 3.1.6 |
comment:6 by , 14 years ago
| Summary: | boot from usb → BIOS support for booting from usb devices |
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comment:7 by , 12 years ago
Replying to frank:
Just a comment: Of course I see the advantage of booting from an USB device. But it will require a lot of additional code in the VirtualBox BIOS which we (at least currently) don't intend to implement.
I wonder if the situation has changed. Aside from being a nice2have, it's also useful in testing a USB drive itself. I'm trying to boot from something created with unetbootin and I don't want to first test it on my 'real' machine and take risks. If I could verify that it boots in VirtualBox I can sandbox it. Is it still a significant effort?
comment:8 by , 12 years ago
Another one NEEDING this.
I'm a deployment specialist so i need to be able to test usb boot devices. I also need to test PXE boot so right now there are two blocking Bugs that makes Virtualbox unusable.
I also strongly objects about seeing this as a minor bug. IT's basic functionality that competing products have had for years. It's also a matter of quality that things that just should work doens't (PXE)
comment:9 by , 12 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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PXE is supposed to work so if it doesn't for you then please open a ticket containing a detailed error description.
I vote for the feature.