[SOLVED] Port VM Disk to Host PC's HDD | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 2:44 PM

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Hello,
So i have got a Arch installation as a VM in VMPlayer. Is there a way to like make a ISO of the Virtual Hard Drive and Port that over to a Hard Drive on my Host Computer?
The Virtual Disk is 300GB
I have 2 Hard Drives. One where i wanna store the ISO (1.25TB free). And then a 3TB Hard drive where i want to Burn the ISO on. (it is conviniently the same Hard drive as where the Virtual Hard Drive is on, 3TB)

Any Idea?

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:52 PM

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drowsy blaze Hello, So i have got a Arch installation as a VM in VMPlayer. Is there a way to ...

Instead of that, why don't you clone it? Try with clonezilla.

But tbh I would make a scratch install

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 2:52 PM

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fathom river Instead of that, why don't you clone it? Try with clonezilla. But tbh I would ...

Wait that is doable?

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But not to the same drive i think

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:53 PM

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If youre using the drives on the same pc, it should work in theory

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I've already cloned several drives with clonezilla and it takes care of everything

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 2:53 PM

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And idk abt scratch as i've configured everything to my liking. That would be my last bet

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Yea but the Virtual Drive is on the Drive i want Arch to be on

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:54 PM

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drowsy blaze And idk abt scratch as i've configured everything to my liking. That would be my...

If clonezilla doesn't work, you will need to install from scratch

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:54 PM

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drowsy blaze Yea but the Virtual Drive is on the Drive i want Arch to be on

Passthrough your real drive to the VM then clone the VHD to the real drive with clonezilla.

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 2:56 PM

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https://tay.needs.rest/explorer_5dydd4M6sH.png no like this is the Drive i want to be arch on. But this "Arch" folder is exactly the VM

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:56 PM

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Like.. on your VM, attach the VHD that has your current arch Installation as NVMe drive, have a virtual SATA optical drive with clonezilla iso on it then add your real drive to it and begin cloning

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:57 PM

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drowsy blaze https://tay.needs.rest/explorer_5dydd4M6sH.png no like this is the Drive i want ...

You need to move the VM somewhere else if you want to write to that drive as clonezilla will wipe the whole drive.

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.aw archiso

graceful frostBOT Feb 9, 2023, 2:57 PM

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Arch Wiki: Archiso

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:57 PM

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If you want to make an iso instead

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.aw cloning

graceful frostBOT Feb 9, 2023, 2:57 PM

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Arch Wiki: Disk cloning

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_cloning

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:58 PM

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Is what I'm talking about

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Then you have

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.aw migrating to new hardware

graceful frostBOT Feb 9, 2023, 2:58 PM

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fathom river .aw migrating to new hardware

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fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:58 PM

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.aw migrating Installation

graceful frostBOT Feb 9, 2023, 2:58 PM

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fathom river .aw migrating Installation

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fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 2:58 PM

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.aw migrating Installation to new hardware

graceful frostBOT Feb 9, 2023, 2:58 PM

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fathom river .aw migrating Installation to new hardware

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drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 2:58 PM

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fathom river You need to move the VM somewhere else if you want to write to that drive as clo...

Then imma try that

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:00 PM

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drowsy blaze Then imma try that

I haven't used VMware in a while but you should be able to pass through your real drive to it. Be sure it is not a partition as windoz likes to place drives and partitions as the same kind of thing
Yeah, smart move windoz harold1

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https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Downloads - Clonezilla

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:01 PM

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Yea the download is pretty slow

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:01 PM

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drowsy blaze Yea the download is pretty slow

Btw clonezilla is able to make images of an installed system

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:02 PM

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drowsy blaze Yea the download is pretty slow

nvm just was a shity Vendor

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:02 PM

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fathom river Btw clonezilla is able to make images of an installed system

I think thats maybe even easier?

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:02 PM

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But you may want to direct clone from drive to drive

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:02 PM

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Can i then resize the partition to the whole size of the Harddrive?

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:03 PM

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drowsy blaze I think thats maybe even easier?

It is more easy to direct clone from drive to drive as no middleman image will be required

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:03 PM

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drowsy blaze Can i then resize the partition to the whole size of the Harddrive?

Clonezilla does everything for you

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:03 PM

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ahhh okay

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:03 PM

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Just tell it where's the source and target

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:03 PM

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Do i need to boot into it?

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:04 PM

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It will warn you 3 times that this will nuke and wipe the target drive

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:04 PM

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drowsy blaze Do i need to boot into it?

Like does the VM need to boot into there

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:04 PM

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drowsy blaze Do i need to boot into it?

Ofc you have to boot into it. It a live iso so... But with the vm boot into it

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:05 PM

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Okay

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accidental caps

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:05 PM

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drowsy blaze Okay

But be sure to configure your target drive on the vm

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:05 PM

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will do

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:05 PM

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I'm not at home rn so I can't help you with images

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:06 PM

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Shit i cant move the Harddrive

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i copied it but VMPlayer doesnt let me

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:06 PM

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Is this an internal drive?

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:06 PM

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Nvm i got it

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:07 PM

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Your target shouldn't be a partition of your main drive

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Clonezilla will always wipe and destroy the data of the whole drive when using it

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:07 PM

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Yea i have one drive that isnt used at all

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:08 PM

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drowsy blaze Yea i have one drive that isnt used at all

So you have 2 drives?

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:08 PM

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3 actually

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https://tay.needs.rest/vmplayer_bt5mBac90T.png

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hell

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:08 PM

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If you plug it as external drive, you should be able to attach it to the vm

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You could also export the vhd then try cloning with vbox

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:09 PM

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yea its internal

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Yea nowq it completely fcking broke

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:11 PM

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drowsy blaze yea its internal

Wdym

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:11 PM

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drowsy blaze Yea nowq it completely fcking broke

What

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Alternatively you could image the vhd with clonezilla then deploy it on the real deive by booting into clonezilla on your real hardware

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Ofc you need a drive where to store the image

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:13 PM

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Yea it wont let me use a Phyiscal Drive

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:13 PM

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drowsy blaze Yea it wont let me use a Phyiscal Drive

Then image it with clonezilla on the VM and save the image somewhere else

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:13 PM

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https://tay.needs.rest/vmplayer_HF9pLAwNyV.png

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i think thats right

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:14 PM

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Then deploy the image by booting into clonezilla on bare metal

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:14 PM

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Lets hope

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Clonezilla just takes its time

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:16 PM

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drowsy blaze Lets hope

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Clonezilla ofc takes its time as it is copying a whole drive so

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But here takes some mins as I use NVMe SSD

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:17 PM

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Now it doesnt see the other drive

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:18 PM

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Im my case I cloned directly from drive to drive. But you can use images to deploy

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:19 PM

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drowsy blaze Now it doesnt see the other drive

I hope you can clone your system.

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:19 PM

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I am trying

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:21 PM

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The time it takes depends of your system specs and the kind of drive you're using. Sata HDDs ofc will take its time

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:21 PM

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For now i need to first get it to see the drive

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:22 PM

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drowsy blaze For now i need to first get it to see the drive

Why? Just boot the vm into clonezilla then save the image somewhere else. You can use shared folders as a way to bridge the host with the vm

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taps_head

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:22 PM

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Yea but nothing works

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wont detect shit

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 3:23 PM

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drowsy blaze Yea but nothing works

Why don't you then migrate the VM HDD to virtualbox then try again

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:25 PM

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Yea i did that

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Just needed a second HDD to copy stuff to

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It just didnt do anything

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fun

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Nah imma just do a fresh install

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not gon deal with that bs and everything dying

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But still ty for trying with me

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 3:32 PM

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drowsy blaze not gon deal with that bs and everything dying

Plus I can learn better and perfect things

fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 4:37 PM

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drowsy blaze But still ty for trying with me

I just did what you asked me to do

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After you get the new Installation, you can clone it

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... solved

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fathom river Feb 9, 2023, 4:38 PM

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Append solution

drowsy blaze Feb 9, 2023, 4:38 PM

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[SOLVED] Port VM Disk to Host PC's HDD

#[SOLVED] Port VM Disk to Host PC's HDD