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Turn VirtualBox disk into a bootable usb
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vagrant_2_usb.sh
cd ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/eda-VAGRANTSLASH-phase-zero/1.0.0/virtualbox
VBoxManage clonehd box-disk1.vmdk eda.img --format RAW
diskutil list
# USB_BLOCK_DEVICE=/dev/rdisk2
diskutil unmountDisk $USB_BLOCK_DEVICE
sudo dd if=eda.img of=$USB_BLOCK_DEVICE bs=16m
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gardner commented Apr 5, 2016

If diskutil list shows your usb disk as /dev/disk2 then you want to do diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 but when you do the dd command it will be faster to use the raw disk device. This can be done by writing to /dev/rdisk2 instead of /dev/disk2. Please note the r in the raw disk device.

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