Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive? I know VMWare 6.5 can use physical harddisk drive directly to get good performance, can I convert an existing vmdk file to physical harddisk drive go gain better performance?
Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive
vmware-vmdk
Best Answer
If you have qemu-img, you should be able to do all of this from a command line dealing just with image files.
That will write out whatever raw format the vmdk was out to a physical drive. Its better to use copy-on-write FS for this. Make sure that all source data allocated within first N Gb to fit the target disk of N-Gb size.