[SOLVED] Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
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[SOLVED] Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
Could someone please summarise the basic steps in creating a physical Mint installation from a Mint guest.
I have Mint running as a Virtualbox guest on a Windows 10 PC. After a lot of experimenting, I have also found and installed good Linux alternatives for the Windows applications I am familiar with, I am now ready to convert that PC to Linux Mint.
The PC has one 500GB SSD containing Windows and all of its applications and one 1TB SSD containing all my user data and the Virtualbox VM folder. The Virtualbox VM folder including several snapshots currently occupies 46GB. There is plenty of free space on both SSDs.
I have a verified and authenticated copy of the linuxmint-21-cinnamon-64bit.iso file that I used to create the Mint guest in September last year, and which I used to burn a bootable Mint USB stick using balenaEtcher.
I could use this USB stick to convert the PC to a single-boot Linux Mint machine and then repeat all the steps I took to create the configuation of my current Mint VM. However, I understand that it should be possible to create a bootable USB stick from my Mint VM and install that on the PC instead. I do not know where to start in finding detailed instructions on how to do this and a summary of the basic steps would be really helpful.
Peter
I have Mint running as a Virtualbox guest on a Windows 10 PC. After a lot of experimenting, I have also found and installed good Linux alternatives for the Windows applications I am familiar with, I am now ready to convert that PC to Linux Mint.
The PC has one 500GB SSD containing Windows and all of its applications and one 1TB SSD containing all my user data and the Virtualbox VM folder. The Virtualbox VM folder including several snapshots currently occupies 46GB. There is plenty of free space on both SSDs.
I have a verified and authenticated copy of the linuxmint-21-cinnamon-64bit.iso file that I used to create the Mint guest in September last year, and which I used to burn a bootable Mint USB stick using balenaEtcher.
I could use this USB stick to convert the PC to a single-boot Linux Mint machine and then repeat all the steps I took to create the configuation of my current Mint VM. However, I understand that it should be possible to create a bootable USB stick from my Mint VM and install that on the PC instead. I do not know where to start in finding detailed instructions on how to do this and a summary of the basic steps would be really helpful.
Peter
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Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
A quick search brings up this:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/32499/m ... cal-system
Its a bit dated but I do not think much has changed in the procedure. I think there will be some clean up work to do like the network configuration and video. Shouldnt be hard though.
Hope that helps.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/32499/m ... cal-system
Its a bit dated but I do not think much has changed in the procedure. I think there will be some clean up work to do like the network configuration and video. Shouldnt be hard though.
Hope that helps.
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Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
That indeed looks fairly painless. (except waiting for dd to copy 40+ GB)
Huh, didn't notice OP has not came back in over 10 days. It really is hard to care when the OP apparently does not.
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Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
I guess they have a busy life or something happened? (Ive been watching too many of those 'Air Disaster' shows ) lol.
What I really hate is that you probably solved their problem and they never post back about it and do not mark it solved.
Hope it works out for you
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Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
My suspicion is that it would be quicker and probably simpler to simply create a USB install medium and do a clean install to the machine.
I've never moved an install from Vbox to hard bare metal but installing from USB takes only 10 -15 minutes for me even on a spinning rust hard disk; on an ssd it will probably be a lot less than that.
I've never moved an install from Vbox to hard bare metal but installing from USB takes only 10 -15 minutes for me even on a spinning rust hard disk; on an ssd it will probably be a lot less than that.
Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
Thats what I think too. Of course, If you have a lot of junk installed it would be a pain to sit and install it all again. I do not think a lot of users will use Linux Mint to run a webserver and all that but its possible.
I would just backup my config directories for .thunderbird / .mozilla and do as you say - Totally reinstall. It would give you a chance to install the 'lates/greatest' too. In the case of VM's I just export them as an appliance and throw them back after VB install.
He could do a bare metal install of 21 and then install VB and import the appliance of mint.
I would just backup my config directories for .thunderbird / .mozilla and do as you say - Totally reinstall. It would give you a chance to install the 'lates/greatest' too. In the case of VM's I just export them as an appliance and throw them back after VB install.
He could do a bare metal install of 21 and then install VB and import the appliance of mint.
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Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
If you do Not connect to internet (or rather disconnect it) install goes less than 4 minutes.
Yes, unless maybe they had a ton of extra software installed, it would be quicker.
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Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
I have also actually done exactly what OP wants, create a bootable, installable USB from inside a VM, using Systembacks' feature " live system create",
For Mint 21 with about 2 dozen extra packages (including VB) the .iso was 3.5GB. I consider it as one of if not the best cloning / backup solutions I have ever seen.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rick rick 3.4G Aug 8 21:40 mint21custom.iso
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Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
Hello, it's "The OP" here, aka Peter.
No, I'm not too ill-mannered to acknowledge coffee412's reply to my question.
Yes, something did happen but it's over now.
As over 200 people read my question and it has taken until now for anyone other than coffee412 to post any sort of response, it seems patience does have a reward and I now have an practical and useful answer.
From ajgreeny, endorsed by coffee412 and then by rickNS: "...it would be quicker and probably simpler to simply create a USB install medium and do a clean install to the machine".
After reading that link to ubuntu.com several times, I was beginning to come to the same conclusion.
Peter
No, I'm not too ill-mannered to acknowledge coffee412's reply to my question.
Yes, something did happen but it's over now.
As over 200 people read my question and it has taken until now for anyone other than coffee412 to post any sort of response, it seems patience does have a reward and I now have an practical and useful answer.
From ajgreeny, endorsed by coffee412 and then by rickNS: "...it would be quicker and probably simpler to simply create a USB install medium and do a clean install to the machine".
After reading that link to ubuntu.com several times, I was beginning to come to the same conclusion.
Peter
Re: <SOLVED> Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
@pbtn6 --- I hope everything turned out ok on your issue. I figured something in life was rearing its ugly head when we didnt hear from you in a while. We all have those moments.
I guess if you run into trouble just report back and start a new thread. Should be a pretty straight forward thing to do.
I guess if you run into trouble just report back and start a new thread. Should be a pretty straight forward thing to do.
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Re: Create Physical Machine from Virtualbox Guest
Peter hi,pbtn6 wrote: ⤴Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:05 pm
From ajgreeny, endorsed by coffee412 and then by rickNS: "...it would be quicker and probably simpler to simply create a USB install medium and do a clean install to the machine".
After reading that link to ubuntu.com several times, I was beginning to come to the same conclusion.
Yes, but again it all depends, how much configuration you have done,
EXAMPLE, just copying your .mozilla folder off the VM is enough for some users.
For me it would be also .thunderbird, and a bunch more such as .kodi,, .local/share/gnote...etc.
And also depends on how many PC's you want to deploy this "custom.iso" to, for myself I have 6-7 Thinkpad laptops, so a custom .iso is a valuable tool for myself.
I currently have at least 3 of them running a "myself created custom .iso of Mint 21". If "you" only have one machine to contend with then there is less worry over this kind of stuff.
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