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Export Linux inside VHD to real partition.

Posted: 25. Mar 2013, 06:30
by Z
I have happily installed VirtualBox on Windows 7 64 bit Home premium, no Problems.

I have set up 64 bit Linux 2011 on a .vhd file inside virtual box.

Is there a freely available tool, on the VirtualBox command line, that I can use to export my linux into a non-formatted partition
area on a drive, or a pre-formatted drive linux partition (ext3/swap) ?

What do I need to to in order to get Linux out from in VirtualBox, and live, direct, on my system's hardrive?

(And with a multiple boot menu like grub or lilo successfully put there, on my updated Master Boot Record)?

This is not to do with importing or exporting virtual machine files.

Could I please have a response to this?

Re: Export Linux inside VHD to real partition.

Posted: 25. Mar 2013, 12:06
by mpack
There is no tool provided by VirtualBox to do this. Google for CloneZilla or dd if you want a freeware disk imaging app. This is not a recommendation btw (my own criteria would not attach significance to "free", particularly in a tool that messes with my PCs disks).

Re: Export Linux inside VHD to real partition.

Posted: 26. Mar 2013, 05:21
by Z
Is there a free tool to do this, particularly an official Oracle one?

To extract my virtual .vhd Linux OS to the outside, on a hard drive partition(s)?

Re: Export Linux inside VHD to real partition.

Posted: 26. Mar 2013, 11:31
by mpack
Those questions are already answered in my previous post.