What would be the point of VirtualBox on the drive? You'd need to boot from it anyway (and you'd need 2 OSes on the stick - 1 to run VBox on and one to guest), so you might as well run on the metal.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Angelo GIRARDI <[email protected]> wrote: > Dick Davies wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Angelo GIRARDI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dick Davies wrote: > > > OpenSuse 11.2 came out last week, and they ship a LiveCD ISO that > can be DDed to a USB stick. This gives you the convenience of a live CD, > but also makes the image read/writable > > > > > I wondered if I have any way of booting a Virtualbox guest from USB, > and 'connecting' that ISO? > > > > > You can mount the usb key as ISO-cd and then boot from that ISO as CD-ROM. > But I suppose that is not what you really want? > > > Not really - the problem then is that (I expect) VirtualBox will treat > it as read-only. > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > > What you may done then is : > 1. install the host system to boot from the usb > 2. boot the host from the usb key > 3. install VB on the usb key > 4. install the guest on the usb key > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
