Worth noting, that you should make all the necessary arrangements to have network connectivity between your Virtual Machine and physical hardware.

Same thing here: you need to start liveCD with UDPCast Disk Cloning selecting receiver this time as well as appropriate physical hdd. Since you have a physical hdd, I'm assuming, you also have a complete PC with this hdd attached to it. Its dialogs are self-explanatory (see the screenshot)Īfter selecting this Virtual Machine to be the sender, you should select which drive you want to broadcast (using Unix notation, like /dev/sda).Īfter you've started the sender, you need to start receiver as well. When liveCD is started, navigate to main menu and find the UDPCast Disk Cloning. Run your Virtual Machine with this particular vmdk attached, but instead of ordinary boot use PartedMagic liveCD to boot from. Since you have a vmdk file, you might have a VMWare Workstation at your disposal, even complete Virtual Machine this vmdk is attached to. The idea is to stream the whole your vmdk out of it's Virtual Machine to physical machine, where it is written to the physical hdd. More info and commands on qemu-img here if you want to make sure it's not possible on Windows:

Note: Beware that if the source machine is Windows 10, dd may not be compatible with converting the VMDK to RAW(disk), some similar situation reported here. Status=progress will show you a progress line of dd.īs=256k is block size (cache), you can use bs=4M for today hard disks but I am using 256k since I'm wring to a USB thumb drive. But remember it's different to Windows' drive letters. X in sdX is the drive that you want to write to. dd if=/cygdrive/driveletter/path/to/vmdk bs=256k status=progress of=/dev/sdX You can see all your hard disks with their partitions. Open Cygwin terminal as Administrator and type in: cat /proc/partitions You should use Cygwin to be able to use dd and accomplish the task. You didn't mention what OS you're using and Alex's answer will not work on Windows and someone asked how to do this on Windows in the comments, so here's how:

Convert vmdk to iso physical machine