How Can I Boot From A USB Flash Drive in Virtualbox 

Edit: Changing the version to Virtual Box 5.2 ended up fixing the issue. Keeps telling me "Could not automatically add the drive(s) to the VirtualBox VM. Possible reason: unable to find a storage controller in the VirtualBox VM, please add one and try again. You can do that by starting the VirtualBox Manager, editing the VM's storage options and adding a storage controller. Are you sure you want to continue (not recommended)...?" Trying to get an OS installed with Yumi working on a VM. What I've tried so far: 1. Making sure that both programs were opened in Administrator mode. 2. Trying the IDE option as well 3. Clicking "Enable EFI"

Everyone who have this error: startvm is an option for the VirtualBox VM runner (VirtualBoxVM) application, not the VirtualBox Manager. You need Virtual box v5. It does not work with v6

Thank you so so much, I was finally able to boot from my external hard drive! Man, I gotta subscribe to you.

The biggest thing to note here is to make sure you run "virtual machine usb" in administrator mode. Even though it said it in the video I forgot and it didn't work. I am also getting an error --startvm is an option for the VirtualBox VM runner (VirtualBoxVM) application. This stops the virtual machine starting up, but I can still run it manually after virtualbox starts up.

Unable to find storage controller in VirtualBox...I followed what you did and I'm running both things under administrator...

Great video Brian! i was wondering how to do this the other day, thank you very much for sharing the video.👍😎JP

Really Helped a lot to test my MultiBootUsb made with ventoy multi boot usb, Thanks Man

How about imaging an existing VirtualBox Win 10 .vdi to a bootable USB drive for another computer?

Very interesting. Not sure why you need to select sata or ide but I'll give it a try. Thanks Brian.

Love your videos man! Is this by chance available in linux or Windows only?

What would you recommend for booting a hard drive with a virtual machine?

Thanks a lot for great tutorial. Finally succeeded booting with USB and installing Windows 7 inside VirtualBox. Previously tried Plob manager, VirtualBox creation of RAW drive etc but installation fail with driver not found error. Thanks again. Subscribed :-)

So what does the second app (VMUB) do that enables this capability? Can this be done without this app?

Thank You Brian

great video bro ...... you rocking my world

Hello! “FATAL:Could not read from the boot medium! System halted “error message is displayed. What is the reason?

pretty useful... i can finnaly test my brand new os!

Thanks a lot. By the way i tried my usb E2B to run from Vbox. Although your program gives error but when i open usb from Vbox it runs. So error does not mean it does not work.

thank u brother, usefull

Does not appear to work in Virtualbox 6. Generates error message "--startvm is an option for the Virtualbox VM runner (VirtualboxVM) application, not the Virtualbox Manager." Changing the text in the icon to VirtualboxVM.exe does not fix the issues. As I am relatively new to Linus and Virtualbox, I am not clear on ow to remedy this. Didn't find a solution in the following comments.

VMUB currently is not compatible with VBox v6 - use v5 only.

very helpful , good job

i tried this on my other hard drive. 'FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.' showed up and 'I dont want to set the world on fire' started playing in the background. I got a warm feeling...

I can't get this to work with Virtual Box 6.1. I keep getting an error saying it can't automatically connect with the virtual machine. It lists a possible solution of installing a controller in the virtual machine. I have tried it with a SATA controller and an IDE controller but I get the same error. The frustrating this is I was once able to boot on a USB drive without the special USB boot add on, but now it either ignores the USB drive or drops me into a command line instead of booting on the USB Stick. Do you have a better way to accomplish this task of booting on a USB Stick for this version of Virtual Box?

How did you boot the actual drive? It just cut to it and I cant figure out how to do it :( @ 5:51 Edit: I have Kali Linux live That I am trying to boot up from my usb but it says "system not bootable and system halted"

im keep getting this error "--startvm is an option for the VirtualBox VM runner (VirtualBoxVM) application, not the VirtualBox Manager. " plz help

you sir. are a life saver.

My attempt to use this is probably the reason I can’t get the Kali to appear when I try to open it on the optical drive.

I am getting the below error ( VERR_ACCESS_DENIED) althougth I am running virtual box and the USB boot tool as Admin. any hint how to solve it?

Well I have just used it for installing WIN10 on a new virtualbox VM. But now it won´t boot without the USB connected and the Boot app running. Thats nice. Anyone please has any advice how to fix the VM boot?

really wish this program was updated by its creator to work with virtualbox 7...

Hello I got this error message : --startvm is an option for the VirtualBox VM runner (VirtualBoxVM) application, not the VirtualBox Manager. How can I fix it ?

Great video Bri.

GOOD TUTORIAL BRITEC!!!!!

Do we have to create both ide and sata

"Could not automatically add the driver(s) to the VirtualBox VM. unable to find a storage controller in the VirtualBox VM, please add one and try again" error is constantly popping out. I have SATA storage controller in settings. Idk what to do.

Very good video, but is this the USB boot media needed to install android 8 on a PC?

Is it the same process for an Ubuntu VM?

What i can do this in os linux ?

Hey Brian great job as always mate! Any chance you can create a Windows 7 Ultimate and Win 10 UEFI setup on 2 separate ssd drive configuration? Cheers!

So the answer is you can't... you need another program to cohost the boot...

I tried to follow different videos and I get the same popup. When I boot from the usb boot on usb 1 I always get the error Could not add drives to the VirtualBox VM. I cannot find a solution to this anywhere.

good video , but When I want to open the default Windows I see this, VT-x / AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Some guests (such as OS / 2 and QNX) need this feature and will fail to boot without it. so .. what can i do ?

very confusing .can u make it even simple , i have os pendrive plugged in and i have started vb but i cant find those settings . plz say easier way ..

Hello sir britek I thank you for my request is aprescier thanks a lot to you cincerment your A-P-R.

Not working, unable to find a storage controller in the VM

Super video. I tried to use that video for sd card.. i come to some way but my knowledge is limited in IT. Here is my and many other people situation. I have a device which runs on dos. Same devices other people uses are like oscilloscopes, cnc and other type specialized equipment and HDD are like 30 ish years old and they expected to die soon or they are noisy . In new pc.. disket ( A drive ) are non existent and usb on these old devices cant be installed. So ... we try to buy adapters for cf card or sd cards(to simulate hdd) ... and even if cf card arent totally obsolete , they need some adapters to connect to pc.. but sd card can be mounted directly to pc. Could you make video how to install dos 7.1 (due to use more than 2G of space) directly on sd card on pc and than we could plug that sd card directly to machine and it should work. Personally I tried rufus and free dos but what i did is not install but make bootable sd.. which machine did recognize but could not install since it was C: drive ..I would need 2 adapters (in my case not an option). Rhan your video helped me to the point of error iso 9660 . I will continue with your video and do note that in Oracle make some comments on settings-storage- type im running 486 socket 3 and i think it is 33MHz Thenak you for your work.

very helpful

This was useful. Good to know thanks.

Hello I would like you to spend a video on the conversion of video like DVD rip and a software conveter free or paying a good price if posible thank you and good to you cincerment your A-P-R.

PERFECT subscribed

Can you do this on Mac?

Superb 👌

But, can i use it to boot on my real machine?

I got this error : --startvm is an option for the VirtualBox VM runner (VirtualBoxVM) application, not the VirtualBox Manager. Do you have any solution for this? Tnx

That is way cool. Very interesting and well done.

Good morning, I have Virtualbox 7 but it doesn't work, this is the error it gives me. "Warning Could not automatically add the drive(s) to the VirtualBox VM. Possible reason: unable to find a storage controller in the VirtualBox VM, please add one and try again. X You can do that by starting the VirtualBox Manager, editing the VM's storage options and adding a storage controller. Are you sure you want to continue (not recommended)...? Abort Retry" If anyone can help me I would be grateful.

mine keeps saying can't create media

doesnt work for virtualbox 7.0 it creates vmdk disk linked to usb drive but it cant start vm. One may want to consider these: cmd as admin, wmic diskdrive list, "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" createmedium disk --filename "V:\VMS\VM_USB_boot\phd3_usb" --format=VMDK --variant rawdisk --property RawDrive=\\.\PHYSICALDRIVEX where X is drive nuimber. Then add created disk to vm and boot.

My computer's running Linux ... Would wine help me with this?

AMAZING THANK YOU :D

Can you help me i'm getting this error: ,,--startvm is an option for the VirtualBox VM runner (VirtualBoxVM) application, not the VirtualBox Manager.'' pls help

cool now i can safely test viruses without taking storage from my internal ssd

nope, says access is denied

i run it as administrator and doesn't work

Ty good video

You didnt explain where the download fits in with all of this, missing a few explanations, without those explanations it would be a waste of time trying to follow along

why isn't virtual box able to do this . or , in the 4yrs since , does it now come with this ability on it's own ?

Does anybody has a clue on how to install Windows 10 on a remote accessed desktop (VPS)?

it don't work for me

How can I get a USB without money! next video lmao

Don't work on Virtualbox 6.1.4

i keep getting the error: --startvm is an option for the VirtualBox VM runner (VirtualBoxVM) application, not the VirtualBox Manager.

waste of time in 2020 his version of virtual box its late

Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10. Doh. :( Was hoping to run this under Linux.

God my brain, VMware is better

I'm browsing the Deep Web, I just need a quick way to just pull the USB out and shut the machine down in case I run into a virus or hack attack.

USELESS ! not WORKING at all