I've just bought a new PC. My old one has 16GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. I want to turn it into an NAS server. I have put Windows Server 2022 into a virtual machine, and configured everything to my liking except the shared folder and IP address. I tried to config everything I could to as close as possible to the actual specs of my PC. How can I make this VM (VMware Workstation 17 player) into an OS on real hardware? I would set everything up again, but without thinking I have put many hours of scripting into the VM...
Please can someone help?
I have tried this question: Convert a Windows VM to physical partition - the tools offered there (Norton Ghost, etc...) have been discontinued
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I have used clonezilla in the past.
Connect the hard drive or ssd from the new PC via USB.
Modifiy the vmware settings add the USB storage, from above, to said VM and make it boot from the clonezilla.iso
Since the virtual storage and real storage should both be visable to the VM, just clone 1 drive to the other drive.
Boot from clonezilla
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disk to disk (or is it device to device)
After cloning is complete shutdown the VM.
Connect the storage back into the phyical PC and boot from it.
If it doesn't work, you may want to sysprep the orginal, and then reclone it.
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