Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 05:05, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>
> That sounds like a very good idea.

Well, it works for me and I've been doing it for years -- see this blog post:

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/50416.html

2016!

> I've set up a virtual machine with virt-manager, and installed Ubuntu 24.04
> in it. It worked like a charm.

Never tried it using KVM or Xen or related tooling. (`virt-manager`
can use both, and emulation in QEMU, so I don't know what you were
trying and you did not say.)

TBH, the last time I needed to do this, I installed VMware Player and
used that, because it's easier to assign a real device to a VM in
VMware than in VirtualBox. My blog post has some instructions for
doing it in VBox though -- it is possible.

>  But then I tried to do it like you. I've set
> up a second virtual machine. I've removed the virtual hard disk and chose
> "Add device" and then "USB Host Device". I've chosen my USB stick from the
> list of USB devices.
>
> When I started the virtual machine, my system system completely froze. I had
> to do a hard power-off.

Yikes!

It is absolutely mandatory that the USB is dedicated to the VM and not
mounted on the host OS. I have no idea how to achieve this in
KVM/virt-manager, though.


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