Upgrading from a VM to a HD partition possible?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 20 19:07:12 UTC 2010


On 04/20/2010 11:52 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
> <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> I already have Lucid running on VirtualBox (actually, three instances)
>> and would like to upgrade to Lucid on my hard drive but without having
>> to DL all of that which has already been DLed.  Is there a way?
> 
> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24557
> (although I wonder how the hardware detection/drivers will react)
> 

Perhaps this will work?

8.19 VBoxManage clonehd
<http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-clonevdi>

Convert to .img and then install the .img? Don't know, I've not tried
it, but might possibly work.






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