My understanding is the OP wanted a V2P solution. Not a V2V. (virtual to physical)

One could boot to a live media in the vm and then clone (dd,tar,cpio...) to a dvd. Then take those to images and load to a new system.

One could squash the entire current vm OS and then add it to an existing live media if they really needed to.

Cloning to a usb hard drive is pretty easy on many VM's.

I understand now. Well, the answer is you can't make an install disk from a virtual machine. Install disks are compressed software packages that get installed to the new system. And, the exercise is pointless, because VMs are portable.

It is possible to create an install disk from a working vm. I don't know of a single click way to do it. The common way to create a live distro is a number of steps. One part is to have a working system. The OP has that.

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OK, V to P. I know how to do it, but it would be arduous. I'm not aware of any distro that provides such functionality. But it's something to think about developing!

You would dump the entire file system into a directory structure and run genisoimage on it. But that would not account for customizations that might not work on other hardware. It would need to be as generic as possible.

You'd need to allow partitioning of the target drive. And also to install grub on it.

And you'd need to refer genisoimage to a boot sector/loader, such as isolinux, to make the disk bootable.

OR, you could write a small bootable system to the DVD along with the iso image of the desired system, mount the iso as a loop device in the installer, and copy the files in the iso image to the desired hdd/sdd. You could use rsync for that.

You'd need to omit virtual file systems, like /proc, /dev, /sys, /run, and /var/run; and just use empty directories in the iso image. I think it might work with the proper amount of effort, and if it will fit on a DVD.

I'm not quite sure, but you might be able to use dd to make an image of the VM, and then write that image to a DVD as a file, using wodim. You could boot your small install system, and dd (verb) the image file to the target hdd/sdd.

If the drive was too big, it would require additional partitioning to reclaim the empty space after the image was copied over.

I dare say that (nearly) all modern virtualization packages have export features.

I have cloned VMs before and transferred them to physical HDD. I think one misunderstanding is that people, and the OP, assume that linux, like windows, installs only the necessary drivers when installing. AFAIK, linux doesn't just install the necessary drivers, it installs ALL the drivers. Meaning that the cloned image will work on most/any machine.

I explained how I do this in this post:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...14#post5656514

Copy and paste from that post:

I'll give you a step by step:

1) Create your VM.

2) Create a virtual HDD to use to store the "image".

3) Attach the virtual HDD to the VM and boot up, now create a folder in the virtual HDD for the image. I name mine like "1610xubu011517x64" so I know the date and the architecture.

4) Shut down again and attach the Clonezilla ISO.

5) Boot to Clonezilla and image the VM.

6) Now you have to move the "image" from the virtual HDD to an actual partition so you can get at it from clonezilla.

So shut down and remove the clonezilla ISO and reboot to the VM and move the "image", you're going to need to install VB guest tools to be able to "see" you machines partitions.

7) Now you're going to need to put a clonezilla ISO onto a USB stick. I recommend using Parted Magic as it's got clonezilla and the ability to install grub where you want it. The new version of Parted Magic is sold for $9 but you can find older versions that work for free: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...ted_magic.html

8) A couple of things to keep in mind while working with clonezilla, you can only restore the image to a partition that is at least as big or bigger than the original. And you've got to make sure the names of the files match up to the new partition. I've included a pic of the files in a image folder: The 2 files that are important are the ones named "sda1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa" and the one named "parts" Make sure the "sda1" in the first file name is the name of the partition you're restoring to. If not, change that part of the name. The second file named "parts", open it up and change it to the correct partition. In all probability you're going to find the file names don't need changing.

9) Now that you've got the image restored to your preferred partition, now in Parted Magic go to the start button and scroll up to "Grub doctor" or whatever. I can't remember what it's called in that menu, However its obvious.

Now you're good to go. Reboot.

And, no I've never had problems with drivers, however I've only done this with ubuntu, other distros might not be as easy.

Take a look at how OSBoxes does it.

Thanks,

You are most welcome - hope you're successful !

Cheers,