Virtualbox Linux image to bootable drive

w1ckedd

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Hello,

My college provided us with pre-installed vm images to avoid the hassle of installing every piece of software we need to use. The downside of this is that the OS is quite slow so I was wondering if there is a way to dualboot this image to get the full power of my laptop. Does someone know how to do that?

The file is a vmdk. The OS of the software is based on Ubuntu, don't know the exact distro.

Thanks in advanced!
 
Solution
Depends on how the image was made but something like this may work

qemu-img convert source.vmdk -O raw /dev/sdX

In practice I would just install ububtu and install what ever software was needed. Cant imagine it is a whole lot
Depends on how the image was made but something like this may work

qemu-img convert source.vmdk -O raw /dev/sdX

In practice I would just install ububtu and install what ever software was needed. Cant imagine it is a whole lot
 
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