Oracle VM VirtualBox to Physical

[medicnick83]

Hi all,

I want to ask something;

I use Oracle VM VirtualBox to play with certain things like DOS 6.22, Windows 2000 Professional etc.

Now I've got a few hard drives (IDE, small ones) and a old PC so basically I want to take those "images" or make images of them and slap them onto actual hard drives and run the windows on a physical PC.

Ideas?

 

[srothman]

Why? I would personally leave them as VMs. The performance gain you get is minimal, if any considering the operating systems (making huge assumptions compared to the system they are currently running on), and it's one less thing to keep running.

But that's just me.

 

[garyc]

Running really old OSs like this on metal may give you driver problems since your machine will be a lot more modern than they are. If possible leave them as VMs.

 

[battletoad]

Some of my VMs are my images for lab pcs. I simply dump them across the network to the target physical pcs using a DRBL/Clonezilla setup.

In your case, you can use clonezilla to clone the drive image, or any other alternative to clonezilla, and reimage your physical pc. If your VMs are all windows based, you may need to change the driver for the IDE controller of your VM though, otherwise would result in BSODs.