On Tuesday 05 July 2005 12:51, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Ryan D'Baisse wrote: > > Just curious... > > > > How feasible do you think it would be to pull the contents from a VMWare > > virtual drive onto a physical drive and have it function properly? I > > have a development VM that I use with FC4 and it works perfectly. All > > of my apps and settings are just right. It would be great to be able to > > pull that VM out of VMWare and make it live. > > > > Like I said, just curious. I'm still a newbie, so I was wondering how > > difficult it would be. > > I'd try something like Norton Ghost, or mondorescue. Yeah - Ghost works... We've done it a couple of times this way without success. The other alternative would be to use vmware-mount to mount the vmware partitions (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/VMwareDiskMount.pdf) and then copy the filesystems with cp onto your new drive... rerun grub and if should work... Peter.
