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jjmcray
November 17th, 2007, 01:20 PM
Does anyone know how to copy the vmware disk image to a hard drive so it can boot natively ?

TheMatrix
December 23rd, 2010, 06:35 PM
*super-bump*

Yes. Well, kind of. If your disk image is encrypted, then no. Otherwise, try using Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org/).

Since it's Debian, I might have these commands wrong, but otherwise:
[[email protected]]# su

Things might not work without this.
Then figure out which is your VMware partition or disk with
[[email protected]]# mount
It will probably be something with a .vdi extension. Or it may be something like /dev/sda3 or something. I have little knowledge of VMware.

Then once you've done all that, delete your old OS(be sure to back it up), use GRUB (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/), or whatever.

By the way, what were your host & guest OS's?