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[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday June 1 2009, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> > On 2009-05-31 10:56:42 +0800 Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Saturday May 30 2009, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> > > > could virtual machine software make use of a separate harddisk
> > > > instead of a disk image to improve its performance?
<snip>
> > By the way do you know if I can convert an existing hard-disk image
> > file to a real harddisk?
>
> Offhand, I don't, but there's probably a tool for doing it.

 Never tried, but I'd be very surprised if a simple dd did not do the trick.

dd if=<virtual-drive-file> of=/dev/sdx

Then fix the vm config to use that drive / partition.

fyi: I have more confidence you can work with partitions than with full drives.

In that case, dd if=<virtual-drive-file> of=/dev/sdxn

where x is the drive identifier and n is the partition identifier

Greg
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