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Have you tried <a href="http://gizmo-central.en.softonic.com/" rel="ugc">gizmo</a>? you only need to install the virtual drive component and the shared components. &nbsp;This is a windows based program.
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Have you tried gizmo [http://gizmo-central.en.softonic.com/]? you only need to install the virtual drive component and the shared components.  This is a windows based program.

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Looks like gizmo wants to mount iso's as cd-drives and not usb drives I can write to...
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Looks like gizmo wants to mount iso's as cd-drives and not usb drives I can write to...

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I can make an iso and burn to usb with a tool like those you mentioned or for instance Rufus. However, I was hoping for creating everything in the same way as when I create USB bootables directly. Accepting answers as a good enough solution.
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I can make an iso and burn to usb with a tool like those you mentioned or for instance Rufus. However, I was hoping for creating everything in the same way as when I create USB bootables directly. Accepting answers as a good enough solution.

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I am building a bootable usb that uses syslinux and boots a esxi into a scripted install.<br />
Booting the physical host to test different changes made takes time, because the boot process is slow. Is there any way I could create an iso file that acts similar to a syslinux bootbale usb and that I could boot with a virtual machine from instead?<br />
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Preferably I would like to do the task in a Linux command shell.<br />
Would mkisofs do the trick? Seems like fat32 isn't a option there?
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I am building a bootable usb that uses syslinux and boots a esxi into a scripted install.
Booting the physical host to test different changes made takes time, because the boot process is slow. Is there any way I could create an iso file that acts similar to a syslinux bootbale usb and that I could boot with a virtual machine from instead?

Preferably I would like to do the task in a Linux command shell.
Would mkisofs do the trick? Seems like fat32 isn't a option there?

Making syslinux bootable iso's for testing with a vm

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