Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Transfer your VM to your HDD

So you've tested out a nice customised OS in a VM. You've played around with it loads and modified it to suit your needs. Your satisfied enough to want to use as your main OS, but now you have to burn it to a disk, reinstall it to your physical HDD and re-customise it.

Wrong!

Download clonezilla iso (its useful for more that just this, very handy to have around).
Mount the iso into your VM.
Boot to the iso.
Clone the drive to an external disk (or whatever).
Boot clonezilla from your physical bios, and copy the cloned HDD image onto your physical HDD.
If you're using Windows 7 you might need to run a repair to fix the MBR being hashed incorrectly.

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