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The 1st technique to boot on a bootable USB key or a bootable external hard drive consists in using the "Plop Boot Manager" boot manager.

Then, go to the "Boot" tab of the BIOS of your virtual machine.Īs you can see, it's not possible to boot directly on an USB key. Use the USB key as a physical hard driveīoot on the virtual machine BIOS by clicking on : VM -> Power On to Firmware.Ĭonnect your bootable USB key to your virtual machine.

Indeed, for the moment, booting from USB is still not supported by default, and you must therefore use other techniques to test your bootable USB keys. VMware Workstation is a virtualization solution that allows you to do many things, but it still lacks a feature that would come in handy : starting a VM on a bootable USB key.