{"id":74,"date":"2012-01-14T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T17:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2019-01-27T09:04:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T09:04:42","slug":"how-to-boot-from-usb-flash-drive-on-vmware-workstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-boot-from-usb-flash-drive-on-vmware-workstation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Boot from USB Flash Drive on VMWare Workstation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using VMWare Workstation, you will notice that you can&#8217;t boot from USB Flash Drive. There isn&#8217;t any USB option in BIOS boot menu. But sometimes, you need to boot from USB Flash Drive, such as to test installation of pre-configured system, to boot your favorite operating system which comes in USB edition, etc. At this time, VMWare Workstation 7 isn&#8217;t officially support booting from USB Flash Drive yet, but there is a workaround which can help you boot from USB Flash Drive by using Plop Boot Manager.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plop.at\/en\/bootmanager\/download.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Plop Boot Manager<\/a> from Plop \u2013 Boot Manager. Navigate to <strong>Downloads<\/strong>. Click on <strong>plpbt-5.0.15.zip<\/strong> to download. At this time, the latest version is 5.0.15 which doesn&#8217;t support UEFI boot yet.<\/li>\n<li>Once the download is finished, extract the downloaded file. You see the image file: <strong>plpbt.iso<\/strong>, which will be used in next few steps. This is the image file that will allow us to boot from USB Flash Drive.<\/li>\n<li>Attach the Plop boot manager image (plpbt.iso) to the virtual CD drive.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/vmware-mount-plpbt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13700\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>To configure boot order in BIOS of your virtual machine. Click the <strong>VM<\/strong> menu, then select <strong>Power<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>Power On to Firmware<\/strong>. The virtual machine will directly go to the <strong>BIOS Setup Utility<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vmware-power-on-to-firmware.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Boot<\/strong> tab. Next, move the <strong>CD-ROM Drive<\/strong> to the top. Press F10 to save your changes. The virtual machine will then boot into Plop.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/vmware-boot-from-cd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13699\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Attach your USB device to the virtual machine. On Plop&#8217;s boot menu, select <strong>USB<\/strong> and press <strong>Enter<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/plpbt-boot-from-usb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13698\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Plop begins loading from the USB flash drive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using VMWare Workstation, you will notice that you can&#8217;t boot from USB Flash Drive. There isn&#8217;t any USB option in BIOS boot menu. But sometimes, you need to boot from USB Flash Drive, such as to test installation of pre-configured system, to boot your favorite operating system which comes in USB edition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13724,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/13724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}