VMWare -> Physical Box

[Peter Arremann]

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 12:51, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> > Just curious...
> >
> > How feasible do you think it would be to pull the contents from a VMWare
> > virtual drive onto a physical drive and have it function properly?  I
> > have a development VM that I use with FC4 and it works perfectly.  All
> > of my apps and settings are just right.  It would be great to be able to
> > pull that VM out of VMWare and make it live.
> >
> > Like I said, just curious.  I'm still a newbie, so I was wondering how
> > difficult it would be.
>
> I'd try something like Norton Ghost, or mondorescue.
Yeah - Ghost works... We've done it a couple of times this way without 
success. 

The other alternative would be to use vmware-mount to mount the vmware 
partitions (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/VMwareDiskMount.pdf) and then copy the 
filesystems with cp onto your new drive... rerun grub and if should work...

Peter.