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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Virtual Machine onto real hard drive

I have found stuff on the web on getting a real hard drive turned into a vitual pc but not the other way round.

Thinking of using the vboxsf option to transfer a virtual install to a real one, I am sure its not going to be that easy but any thoughts would be handy before I attempt it.

Got a 20gb partition free hoping that it is big enough for root filesystem

MrG

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ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: Virtual Machine onto real hard drive

What exactly you want to achive? Take an existing system out of a virtual machine, put it in a real partition, boot it and trow away the vm? Because that's relatively easy:
You can simply copy the system (with the right file attributes) to its new place, fix the config files (maybe you have to run mkinitcpio from a chroot) update your grub config and boot it.