Solved Vmware WKS rel 17 - showstooppercannot boot from USB

Hi there
Absolute show stopper this one -- VMware Wks 17 cannot boot from a physical USB device (a get arond called plop boot manager but I don't want this type of stuff).

Problem is that some of the standard iso images I create won't boot directly as iso images on vmware as they need isolinux to be downloaded too - which RUFUS does perfectly if you ise rufus to create a bootable USB.

Is there actually any way of converting the Rufus USB stick to an iso -- I know it seems strange but could work.

cheers
jimbo

Will this help?

Fabler2 said:

Will this help?

How to Convert Bootable USB to ISO Image [ Windows 10,11 ]

Want to create a backup of your operating system CD/DVD? If yes, check this article on How to convert bootable USB to ISO in Windows 10/11/7.

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Hi there

@Fabler2
Doesn't work

But EASILY solved --it's not intuitive though.

Add the Rufus created USB device as a PHYSICAL Disk (you need to start VMWare though as administrator for this). Use disk part to get the disk number. I needed the Rufus created bootable device as the standard iso downloaded from the fedora site wasn't bootable on a VM on a windows system - needed the isolinux bootloader which rufus does automatically on these types of isos.

Then in VMWare just add the disk as a physical disk say it's nr 4 just scroll down to physical disk 4

then power on the VM into Firmware

choose the disk

voila






Why do these people make stuff so hard to finf and use for what's a simple Operation

Marking as solved now

cheers
jimbo