We should get the Live Boot menu if all went correctly. We can now complete the setup and boot the VM. We add our Kali Live USB drive and ensure we are set to USB 3.0. Now we navigate to ‘USB’ and we select the USB icon with the green plus. This is an easy way to test if your bootable USB drive is really. Next under ‘Processor’ in ‘System’ we will be increasing the processor amount to 2. You can make QEMU, VMware Server or Oracle VirtualBox boot from the host USB drive. Under ‘Motherboard’ in ‘System’ we will be enabling EFI. This will ask for confirmation, confirm it and continue.

We want to be sure to not create a virtual hard disk. We can continue forward selecting 2GB of memory. We can name it whatever we want and select ‘Linux’ as the type and ‘Debian (64-bit)’ as the version. Lets start with a fresh opening of VirtualBox.įrom here we will be creating a new VM. We can now continue with USB 2.0/3.0 access. From here we navigate to ‘Extensions’ and select box with a green plus and add the pack.Īfter this we will need to be sure to add our account to the vboxusers group if we are on Linux. After downloading this pack we can launch VirtualBox and select ‘Preferences’ under the ‘File’ tab. To get started we first will need to download the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack. Add Your USB Drive to the Virtual Machine To be able to use raw devices as virtual disks, VirtualBox needs to run with administrator privileges.

Virtualbox boot from usb stick