reverse virtualization : vdi to iso

[Galileo]

After much work, my VM works perfectly, and now I'd like to install it on a physical drive.
My question is : how to create an installable archive like an iso ?
Is there a place where this is explained ?
Host : Vista 32bits, guest VM : seven x64 to be installed on the real disk as a dual boot
Thanks for your help

[vbox4me2]

This is whats called v2p migration, look it up with google, ea. vmware convertor, ghost, drivexml can all do this job but its not plain sailing since the hardware will change significantly and the VM might not even boot.

[HubTou]

Hello,

After much work, my VM works perfectly, and now I'd like to install it on a physical drive.
My question is : how to create an installable archive like an iso ?

You won't do that with an ISO, but you can tell VirtualBox to convert your VDI to a raw disk image, which you'll be able to paste to a physical drive.

I know how to do that with BSD Unixes, but I've had difficulties in the past with some Linux or VMware ESXi systems, which tend to "memorize" things about the systems they were installed into... I never tried with Windows, but i suspect that it would be even more complicated (since you need to fit more drivers than for a text only OS).

Is there a place where this is explained ?
Host : Vista 32bits, guest VM : seven x64 to be installed on the real disk as a dual boot

I wrote an article about this (with the added difficulty that I want to be able to perform remote installations, what i call Virtual-to-Remote-Physical, V2RP) that you'll find there:

http://www.frbsd.org/fr/dedibsd/index.html (original French version)

http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... ml&act=url (Google FUBAR translation - please refer to the original article for unmangled/untranslated examples).

Best regards,

Hubert

[Galileo]

http://www.frbsd.org/fr/dedibsd/index.html (original French version)
Hubert

Merci Hubert, super sympa
Je vais m'atteler à étudier ça !