Note that the USB device must be the first hard disk in your virtual machine or VirtualBox won’t boot from it. When you’re asked to select a hard disk, select Use an existing virtual hard drive file, click the button to browse for the file, and navigate to it - that’s C:\usb.vmdk if you didn’t select your own path.īoot the virtual machine and it should boot the operating system from your USB drive, just as if you were booting it on normal computer. Select the operating system on the USB drive when prompted. VirtualBox can only access raw disk devices with administrator privileges.Ĭreate a new virtual machine by clicking the New button and go through the wizard. Right-click the VirtualBox shortcut and select Run as administrator. When you load the VMDK file as a drive in VirtualBox, VirtualBox will actually access the physical device. This command creates a virtual machine disk (VMDK) file that points to the physical drive you select. You can replace C:\usb.vmdk with any file path you want. VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename C:\usb.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive # Type the following command into the Command Prompt window, replacing # with the number of the disk you found above, and press Enter. If you installed VirtualBox to a custom directory, you’ll need to replace the directory path in the command with the path to your own VirtualBox directory: This command will change to VirtualBox’s default installation directory. Type the following command into the Command Prompt window and press Enter.
On Windows 8 or 8.1, press Windows Key + X and click Command Prompt (Administrator). On Windows 7, open the Start menu, search for Command Prompt, right-click the Command Prompt shortcut, and select Run as administrator.
Use the below command to install the Winbox on Wine for Ubuntu or Linux Mint.Īfter downloading the Winbox either go to the download location right click on the file and install with Wine or in Command terminal switch to the download directory and run the below-given command. Step 4: Installing Winbox in Ubuntu via wine Open the browser and use this link to download WinBox. To install the Wine for Ubuntu or LinuxMint just type and execute the below command: apt-get install wine-stableĪpt-get install wine Step 3: Downloading WinboxĪfter installing the Wine, its time to download the Mikrotik RouterOs configurer Winbox. The Wine is a Windows Emulator application that allows running Windows application on Linux operating systems.
For that just type suand enter the root user password. Open the command terminal and log in as a root user. This tutorial we are performing on the Ubuntu 18.04 but it is same for Linux Mint and other Ubuntu version such as Ubuntu 17.04, 16.04, 15.04,14.04,13.04,12.04, 11.04 … Step 1: Login Ubuntu as Root Step 4: Installing Winbox in Ubuntu via wine Install Winbox on Ubuntu and Linux Mint If you are a Linux user such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Debian then here is the way to install the Winbox.