The following error message appears if you have not give appropriate permission privileges as stated above:įailed to open the disk image file /home/lubos/linux-live.vmdk. Now you can start VirtualBox as a regular user and create a new virtual machine as per usual and when asked which virtual disk is to be used simply point the VirtualBox wizard to linux-live.vmdk and proceed with the OS installation. Next, it is important to update permissions to give a non-administrative user write access to both /dev/sdb block device file and to the newly create VMDK file:Īll done. With the above command we have created a raw VMDK file linux-live.vmdk linked to our USB drive /dev/sdb.

# vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename linux-live.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb As a privileged user execute the below command:

First we need to create a raw vmdk virtual file disk linked to our /dev/sdb USB drive. This short “howto” describes how it works.įor the sake of this tutorial we will be using block device file name /dev/sdb to refer to our attached USB drive. This is actually a cool way to create you personalized Live Linux USB stick. VirtualBox virtualization software allows you to install any operation system directly to any attached block device such as USB stick/drive etc.

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