Chris wrote:
Dear All,
is it possible to rsync a virtual machine to a physical machine?
I've tried this, but only a third of all kernel modules were loaded,
especially the network card driver was missing.
For the sake of completeness: this was an Ubuntu machine, but I'd also
be interested to do the same on a Debian box.
Thank you in advance.
I expect it kind of depends on what kind of virtual machine - xen, kvm,
container-based, VMware, virtual box, ....
At least for Xen, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work -- an awful lot of
o/s functionality is handled by the hypervisor and Dom0 - so, you can't
expect to simply move your virtual machine image onto bare hardware, and
have it work.
I'm personally more interested in the other direction - moving a
physical machine image into a virtual machine. Not sure that really
gets all that much simpler.
You might want to ask that question on the support list for your virtual
machine technology.
Miles Fidelman
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