physical to virtual (was: Re: copy installation from vm to bare metal -> kernel modules are missing)

[Chris]

On 07/20/2014 06:04 PM, compdoc wrote:
> I boot clonezilla in the VM, clone the drive(s) to a network share, boot
> clonezilla on the physical, and restore the images. 

I'll try clonezilla, but I thought the linux kernel would detect
hardware when booting, so copying file-by-file should work, shouldn't it?