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Create a guest machine that boots from USB drive plugged on host machine #1633

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Hi, I'd like to know the process of making the guest machine boot from the USB drive. To make my question clearer, I use virtualbox as an example. If I have a bootable USB drive that is /dev/sdc on the host, I can issue sudo VBoxManage createmedium --variant=RawDisk --format=VMDK --filename=/path_to_file/drive_file_to_use.vmdk --property RawDrive=/dev/sdc then I can use the created .vmdk file as the bootable drive for the guest machine, as long as the usb drive is plugged on the host with '/dev/sdc' as its identifier.

How should I proceed with cockpit managing a qemu/kvm guest machine on my host? Thank you.

Figured it out very soon after this post:
It's even easier than virtualbox. Just…

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