Can i take a virtual machine and convert it to work on a physical drive...

[coad_kawi]

I would like to take a virtual machine and put the windows xp pro os on a hard drive, slap it in a computer and boot it up. I know i need all the drivers for the specified computer so what complications would i run into. i am going to try to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine and then put the virtual machine back onto a hard drive and see if it works. As long as vm converter doesn't change the drivers, i think this will work. so my question is, Is this possible? and Does vm converter remove drivers and add the virtual drivers when converting or just add them.

[depping · Accepted solution]

AFAIK it will not remove any drivers, only add new ones. There's a nice PDF about the subject:

And there's a guy on the forum called Matthew who already sorted a lot of this stuff out, check this topic and just contact him: http://communities.vmware.com/message/804776#804776

Duncan

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