How virtual machines such as VMware Fusion,virtualbox boot from a USB device

VMware Fusion does not support direct add from USB booting by default, so we need a third-party tool here.

PLOP Boot Manager (hereinafter referred to as Pbmgr), as well as other multi-boot tools, can also help manage the startup of multiple systems. But there are the following unique places:
* Support USB disk boot
here are two layers of meaning, one is to boot from the USB media, can also be transferred to the USB media boot (regardless of whether the BIOS supports USB boot). From the development log, for EHCI/OHCI/UHCI three kinds of interfaces are supported, but the external USB HUB is not supported.
This function, indeed exciting, although the previous look Filo inside the USB stack, is protected mode, and this is the real mode.

* Support CD Boot
This is also two-tier meaning: can be started from the CD-ROM, but also from other media boot into the CD-ROM drive boot. Although, we have seen: for example, Grub4all inside the scdrom can achieve such a function, but the compatibility is not good; there is a start-up transformation of the boot code for a sector (such as pressing the ALT key during the Avldr.bin startup process and then using the ' C ' Drom item in the menu that appears), There is also a compatibility issue.

* Ultra-small volume and support for graphical interface
pbmgr current version, only 40-50KB's head, but can implement USB stack, and CDROM mini drive is really a miracle, and it also includes graphics support and launch effects. It's really amazing.

Plop Boot Manager Download official website http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html I am currently the latest version is 5.0.15 (the update date is 2013-04-15 has not been updated for two years)

Usage: After download is a ZIP package, after decompression has the following files

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Plpbt.bin is a binary file startup

PLPBT.IMG is a boot file that can load the floppy drive

Plpbt.iso is the ISO file that loads the optical drive

There are other directories to be said later.

Open the virtual machine CD-ROM to load Plpbt.iso and then start the virtual machine you will see the boot interface of Plop boot Manager

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The default supports three hard drives, one floppy disk, one optical drive, and one USB port.

Now you can add the bootable USB stick into the virtual machine, then use the keyboard cursor key to select the startup item, you can start from the U disk.

of course, you've got a floppy drive on hand, so you can do it plpbt.img Write to the floppy disk, the same can be started.

Or you can add a floppy disk to the virtual machine, and then load the plpbt.img file as a floppy disk for the same effect.

Now let's try to copy the extracted Windows directory into the virtual machine.

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Here is a installtombr.bat batch file.

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(Be sure to run the script as an administrator)

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After the installation is complete, we look at the startup options for Win7

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See that it is installed correctly. Then reboot, try.

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We see here a few of the options that are grayed out are not optional, we choose 1 to install the full boot entry here

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The installation is complete, press any key to continue.

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After the installation is complete, only one of the items in the menu that looks plop is grayed out. Press the number 8 to see the key help

I choose 9 reboot here.

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This interface is just the same as loading the ISO disc image, you can also make some simple settings, the font background of the last startup item settings password and so on.

This method is not only limited to the virtual machine USB boot, but also for the real machine, server and so on.

Well, that's what this tutorial is about today.

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How virtual machines such as VMware Fusion,virtualbox boot from a USB device