Follow the introductions in this article. Remember firstly click USB drive at the right-bottom side to connect from host, because USB flash drive is usually connected to host but not virtual machine b default.
Move to Boot option, and use arrow key to choose boot device USB drive. Now it is set as a hard disk, so please expand the hard disk and choose the USB disk from it. Note: The steps may be different if you use another virtual machine software, but not VMware virtual machine.
This article was helpful. Select a virtual disk type: Recommended. Use a physical disk for advanced users. Select a physical disk for this virtual machine to use and use entire disk. Q: How can you make sure which physical disk is the USB disk? Click Next and a physical disk is created.
In VMware, you can install almost any operating system. All you need is an ISO. If you are ever in this situation, though there is no straightforward way, we can bend the rules a bit and boot from a bootable USB drive. Without further ado, let me show you the way to do it. Before moving forward, I assume that you already have a bootable USB drive.
However, even if you have a USB 3. Though sounds complicated, it is pretty easy. Just follow the steps as-is. First, plug-in the bootable USB drive into your system. We are going to use it further down.
Now, download the latest version of the Plop Boot Manager from the official site. VMware opens the VM creation wizard.