Convert VirtualBox (VM) Machine TO Physical Drive

Create your perfect VM then migrate it to a real computer. This video shows you how. Though we are using a Windows Host environment you can use the same vboxmanage command from a Linux host.

Commands Used:
* Set Environment Variable: set PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox"

Boot Your New Physical Drive
Once dd is done, you are done!

Detach your newly created physical drive and plug it into any computer you wish to boot from.
Enjoy your new drive

Problem and Solution
* When you boot your drive it boots to an INITRAMFS prompt and your dead.

[atdi]

Seriously great video, thank you so much. My VM so unstable on a Windows host OS and now running native. Big mahalos!

[cbbcbb]

Great video. I was lead to believe that this was not possible.

[colekelley]

You can also use Rufus in windows to burn the img file to the hard drive and skip the moving the file step.

[danangprastia]

please help me, i got trouble after cnvert .vdi to my physical disk, usb port can't detect any devices,

[boopsnoot]

After doing the DD command and trying to boot into the drive it states that there is no OS on the drive. When running fdisk -l though there is a bootable partition. Any ideas?

[bennguyen]

I have an XP Virtualbox Machine (VDI/ISO), that I'd like to image an external drive with.. then boot/run the external drive from a USB/SATA cable.

[nuroondisc]

I got an error after I tried running "VBoxManage clonehd myVirtualMachine.vdi myVirtualMachine.img --format RAW" (without the quotes) and it was saying

"Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 7.0.18
Copyright (C) 2005-2024 Oracle and/or its affiliates

VBoxManage.exe: error: Invalid parameter 'myVirtualMachine.img'

Usage - Create a clone of a medium:

VBoxManage clonemedium <uuid | source-medium> <uuid | target-medium> [disk | dvd | floppy] [--existing] [--format=
VDI | VMDK | VHD | RAW | other ] [--variant=Standard, Fixed, Split2G, Stream, ESX]"

Is there anyway of fixing this?