Hello everyone, I've searched the forums, google and everywhere else I could think of for an answer to this question. How do you boot a VM from a USB thumb drive??? The *only* helpful post I found informed me that creating a new virtual HDD and selecting the usb drive would work, however, it does not. There is no option to select any drives other than actual hard drives. I have a recovery thumb drive and I need to boot my guest os from that drive in order to properly recover my files. The following is a list of things I've tried (with no success): * Creating new HDD and selecting the usb thumbdrive. * Selecting the "External device" as the only bootable item in the "Boot order" menu *and* selecting the usb drive from the "External boot device" dropdown * Checking the "Select boot device on startup" and looking for the USB options in the bios None of the above actually worked. I know with 100% confidence that the thumb drive is bootable (works on every other machine and VirtualBox). Has anyone had luck with booting USB drives with Parallels 9? Thanks! Much appreciated!
Only Parallels 9 VMs It seems that only newly created Parallels Desktop 9 VMs have the External Device in the Boot Order window. I have not been able to configure my older VMs under PD9 to get the option in Boot Order. Would be nice if someone clarified this, or did I miss something? - Jason
Ls, I got it working with a bootable USB stick (made with 'Windows 7 USB DVD download tool') and the following boot specs: -Boot order: -Hard Disk 1 and External Device -External Boot Device: Mass Storage Device -USB & Bluetooth: USB 3.0 support Succes, Barry
