Moving a Virtual Machine to a physical drive.

[aeoregon]

Hello.  I am attempting to bring a VM from a environment to a hard drive to boot off of.  Any solution from cloning/mounting a VMDK to a hdd? 

[daphnissov]

You're going to have to provide more information than this. Are you talking about transporting it on a USB HDD to an ESXi host? Something else? Again, more details, please.

[aeoregon]

So i cloned the VM via Vmware vCenter Converter Standalone.  I am able to boot it/operate the environment on any computer, but id like to boot from it so it's no longer a VM.  Boot from a hard drive standalone.

[daphnissov]

There are no native tools for that and even if you did image it to a physical drive, it probably isn't going to boot regardless of your hardware configuration. The only possibility is to use some imaging application (dd, Ghost, Clonezilla, etc) to take an image of the VM, capture that on some other media, and write it out to a (presumably PC?) hard drive. Again, though, that 1-to-1 transfer is not going to boot because the underlying hardware is completely different.

[aeoregon]

I will try this method. 

Thanks