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 -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra