Here is how my virtual machine settings look like. SATA disk devices, on the other hand, can only be interacted with in the guest at the block layer, which is somewhat a higher level of abstraction than a full-on passthrough.īut, if you do this, you WILL get a /dev/sdb device node in the guest. I read a tutorial here for usb booting in vmware. USB devices can be literally passed through so that the guest can install whatever driver they want to interact with the USB device at an extremely low level. Note that, because your card reader is a "SCSI Disk Device" (or I'm assuming SATA), there is no support for "Passthrough" like you could do if you had a USB card reader. Selecting the USB stick (mounted before booting optical disk) allows the USB to be booted. The optical disk is then booted and Plop offers a list of devices to boot from. When you reach the final screen in the virtual machine setup wizard, click 'Customize. Download Plop Boot Manager and extract the zipped contents.
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While this will not allow the guest full control of the physical device, it will allow it to create/delete partitions and directly access the device at the block layer. I created an ISO with the Plop boot manager and mounted it to the VM as an optical disk. How to boot off a USB drive in VMware Player. Follow the instructions given during the Windows. The virtual machine resets and the Windows Boot Manager opens. The general idea is that you want to unmount the card from your host system and mount it as a physical disk in the guest. Click on VM > Click on Send Control + Alt + Del. This link is from the official VMware documentation for VMware Workstation 8.
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