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Friday, March 2, 2012 10:41 AM
I have prepared a Windows 8 Consumer Preview bootable USB flash disk. I am trying to install Win8 on a Hyper-V guest and unable to find a way to have the Hyper-V guest boot from USB. Any help is appreciated!
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Nishant Shah
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Friday, March 2, 2012 10:50 AM âś…Answered
Hi!
Unfortunately, Hyper-V does not support passing through USB devices to guests. You can try set it as "offline" in the host disk manager and use it as a pass-through disk connected to the VM's IDE controller. Note that this does not always work with all USB drives.
Friday, March 2, 2012 10:56 AM
Setting offline didnt work as you suggested... However I understand, I'll try and use an ISO instead. Thanks!
DISKPART> offline diskVirtual Disk Service error:The operation is not supported on removable media.
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