Tag: vbox

• VirtualBox: boot from USB image

  Projects like OPNsense.org provide you with an .img file that you would dd to a USB device to boot from. This is not obvious how to use from VirtualBox. You need to convert that into a VMDK file. Basically, the command I used was: vboxmanage convertfromraw OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img /tank/VMs/4544-opnsense-19-freebsd/opensense-19.7-usb.vmdk –format vmdk Then attach that VMDK file…

  jedreynolds

  October 22, 2019

  computing, fun, Linux, networking, sysadmin

  image, usb, vbox, virtualbox, vmd, vmdk