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Hi,
I am running Virtualbox on a Windows 10 machine. I have a few linux VM's that I want to migrate to physical devices. How would I go about doing this?
I am testing:
VBoxManage clonehd "E:\Virtual Machines\linuxa.vdi" e:\temp001\linuxa.img --format RAW
and/or
VBoxManage clonehd "E:\Virtual Machines\linuxa.vdi" e:\temp001\linuxa.iso --format RAW

The first physical device I am using is an Odroid-XU4 board for a NAS. I will eventually be doing Intel NUC devices as well.

Any suggestions?


Update:
tried both, iso using Rufus-2 to write to SD card: no boot of Odroid. img using Win32DiskImage to SD card: no boot of Odroid

It is not as simple as that. An OS contains drivers for all of its connected devices. If you change from one machine (physical or virtual) to another, these devices are different and will require different drivers. Sometimes you can boot up then do a repair install, but often it will not even boot.

@Bill I understand it would not be that simple. But I have to start somewhere and that seemed to be a direction. Though I believe with linux it is that much easier as it has tons of simple drivers that work with most things. I had fully planned to spend time getting things right after the image overlay.

You will probably need to repair the boot loader since it is expecting something different now. Search for how to repair a boot loader for Linux. There are a lot of different approaches so you will need to find the one that fits your needs.

Moving this topic to "Linux Guests" since the question doesn't concern your Windows Host in any way.

TheMattMan0425 wrote: I am testing:
VBoxManage clonehd "E:\Virtual Machines\linuxa.vdi" e:\temp001\linuxa.img --format RAW
and/or
VBoxManage clonehd "E:\Virtual Machines\linuxa.vdi" e:\temp001\linuxa.iso --format RAW

Sorry, but I'm afraid these commands are nonsense. E.g. if the clone is raw, why are you giving it an ISO extension? Imaging an hdd gives you an hdd image, not an ISO image (an ISO means a CD/DVD image containing a ISO 9660 filesystem).

If you want to transfer a working hdd image between PCs then you need to run an image backup tool on one PC and an image restore tool on the target PC. It makes no difference which of these PCs is physical or virtual.