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USB Installation

Create a bootable USB flash drive​

There are a couple of ways to create a USB installation flash drive.

Refer to the Hypervisor interactive ISO hangs with the USB installation method for details and a workaround.

No matter which tool you use, creating a bootable device erases your USB device data. Please back up all data on your USB device before making a bootable device. :::

Rufus​

Rufus allows you to create an ISO image on your USB flash drive on a Windows computer.

  1. Open Rufus and insert a clean USB stick into your computer.

  2. Rufus automatically detects your USB. Select the USB device you want to use from the Device drop-down menu.

  3. For Boot Selection, choose Select and find the Hypervisor installation ISO image you want to burn onto the USB.

    Rufus setup
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    If using older versions of Rufus, both DD mode and ISO mode works. DD mode works just like the dd command in Linux, and you can't browse partitions after you create a bootable device. ISO mode creates partitions on your device automatically and copies files to these partitions, and you can browse these partitions even after you create a bootable device.