How to Boot From USB in VMware Workstation ?

Boot From USB in VMware Workstation 

Hello Friends,

To boot Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation 15 from USB Pen-drive, first of all you need to have one bootable pen-drive. If you don’t know how to create bootable pen-drive? So click on this click 👉👉 Create Bootable Pen-drive

After that Follow my below steps…👇👇

Step 1) Connect the USB Pen-drive to the host machine (physical system).

Step 2) Now Open the VMware Workstation.

Step 3) Click on “Create a New Virtual Machine” or Click on File Tab ➡️ Choose first option “New Virtual Machine”.


Step 4) Select the first option “Typical” and click on Next button.


Step 5) Select the third option “I will install operating system later” and click on Next button.


Step 7) Select any operating system and any version from the options and after that click on Next button.


Step 8) Type a name for the virtual machine. After that click on Browse button to change the default location of Virtual Machine and then click on Next button.


Step 9) Don’t change anything here, simply click the Next button (this step is optional because we have to remove this HDD later).


Step 10) Now click on Finish button.


“The virtual machine created.”

Step 11) Click on “Edit virtual machine settings”. ➡️Select the third option “Hard Disk” and click on Remove button.


Step 12) Then click on “Add” button. ➡️Now select the Hard Disk from the option and click on Next button.


Step 13) Choose or select any virtual disk type from the option which is available and click on Next button.


Step 14) Select the third option “Use a physical disk (for advanced users)” and click on Next button.


Step 15) Under device option, select your USB Pen-drive from the drop-down list and click on Next button, ➡️click on finish button.



Step 16) Click on OK button to save the settings.


Step 17) Click on “Power on this virtual machine”. So now the virtual machine will boot from the USB Pen-drive.


Done!!!

So friends, in this way we have learned to Boot Virtual Machine from USB Pen-drive in VMware Workstation.👍👍👍

How To Boot From USB in VMware Workstation ?



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