DevOps/Proxmox/Virtual USB Pendrive.md

Virtual USB Pendrive

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/virtual-pendrive-on-vm.114143/

Create virtual USB drive (replace with required size in GB)

dd bs=1G count=8 if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/usb0.img

Attach drive to VM in Proxmox

Use "Monitor" inside the VM menu in Proxmox GUI to do this.

drive_add 0 file=/root/usb16.img,if=none,id=drive-usb0,format=raw,cache=none

device_add usb-storage,id=drive-usb0,drive=drive-usb0,removable=on

Boot from the virtual USB pendrive

To boot from the virtual pendrive, first attach it as described above then during VM boot press the key to enter Proxmox VM boot menu. From here just select the virtual USB pendrive to boot from.

Remove the virtual USB pendrive when no longer needed

device_del drive-usb0