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exporting a virtualbox VDI to a harddrive to boot it natively

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Mar 15, 202649296 views
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I have a VirtualBox 3.1.2 image of Debian 5.0.2 running on Windows XP SP3. I would like to export that Debian image to a USB harddrive such that I could boot to that drive and run it natively. Is that possible to do with a VDI?

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Fix for: exporting a virtualbox VDI to a harddrive to boot it natively

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You can export a VDI to a raw disk image with the following command: You can then use the dd command or any suitable disk imaging software to write the image to the disk.

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