Vmware Fusion 11 Install Windows From Usb

Posted By admin  On 29.06.21

Vmware fusion 11 install windows from usb drive

How can I USB boot a VM in VMware Workstation 9? Since VMware’s BIOS doesn’t natively support booting from USB stick, you have to do it with the help of Plop Boot Manager. But Plop Boot Manager only works in legacy BIOS mode. In this tutorial we’ll show you another way to boot VMware Workstation / Fusion / ESXi virtual machine from USB stick, by mounting USB stick as virtual hard disk.

This video demonstrates how to install a Microsoft Windows 10 virtual machine, using the VMWare Fustion software onto an Apple Mac.

How to Boot a VM in VMware from USB Stick

Before getting started, make sure your bootable USB stick is already attached to your host machine.

  1. Open VMware Workstation and go to any existing virtual machine. Click on the VM menu and select Settings.
  2. In the Hardware section, click on the Add button.
  3. Select Hard Disk as the hardware type, and click Next.
  4. I would recommend you select IDE disk type other than the default one.
  5. Choose Use a physical disk (for advanced users) and then click Next.
  6. Select your USB stick (PhysicalDrive1) from the drop-down list and click Next. PhysicalDrive0 is your first physical disk.
  7. Enter the filename and location for the new virtual disk, and click Finish.
  8. Now, your USB stick will appear as an IDE hard drive to the virtual machine. To turn on your machine, click on the VM menu and select Power -> Power On to Firmware.
  9. If your virtual machine uses UEFI firmware, it will boot to the Boot Manager screen. From there you can simply select IDE drive to boot from your USB stick.

    If your virtual machine uses BIOS, it will boot to the BIOS Setup Utility. Go to the Boot tab and select the Hard Drive and press Enter. Use the + key to move the virtual IDE drive to the top position.

    Finally press F10 to save your changes and exit.

  10. Within a few seconds you will be booted into the USB stick.

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Here’s a nice quick post on how to boot a USB stick in VMWare Fusion.

To do this, you use a program called Plop. It’s an ISO of a CD which allows you to boot from a USB Stick.

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Download Plop from here: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagerdl.html Just grab the first download link on that page.

Once you’ve downloaded and extracted that, go to VMWare and Click the button down the bottom of the VMWare Window for your CD Drive then Choose Disk Image. Select the plopbt.iso that you downloaded before.

Boot your VM and make sure you select to attach your USB Stick to the VM (from the buttons down the bottom).

If the boot CD doesn’t launch, look under “Advanced” in the settings for the machine and set it so it boots CD’s first.

Once the boot CD launches you can pick your USB stick, then away you go!

Also, here’s another quick hint for getting to the BIOS on VMWare.

It’s a little bit too fast to hit F2 to get into the BIOS, so you need to go to where your VM is (eg. ~/Documents/VMWare/Windows XP Pro.vmwarevm) and right click it and go to “Show Package Contents”. Right click on the .vmx file, Open With, Other and find Text Edit or your preferred text editor.

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Then just add the line:

bios.forceSetupOnce = “TRUE”

This will change itself to false after every time that you boot it, so if you need to get in again, you go back and change that to true again.

If this has been useful, leave a comment!

Ducky

EDIT: Here’s a crazy little update about PXE Booting with VMWare Fusion.

I set the Networking to Bridged (So the machine gets its own IP rather than doing NAT). I boot the machine which seems to go straight into PXE Booting. When the Zenworks thing is trying to PXE Boot, it’s looking for the Ctrl-Alt keys to be pressed. If you hold them down however, it doesn’t work.

Vmware Fusion 11 Install Windows From Usb File

The Trick is to hold them down and press Space as well. How weird is that? I got this tip from here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/177309