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How to boot from USB in virtualbox on Ubuntu

How to boot from USB in virtualbox Useful for quick testing of USB boot media, flexible plug’n’play of guest operating systems, and so on. Tested for various Ubuntu 9/10, virtualbox 3.1.6/4 Prepare: $ su # mkdir /root/.VirtualBox/HardDisks # VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /root/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/usbdisk.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb1 So, you tell virtualbox to see the USB drive as […]