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=== Introduction ===
Virtual Machine are really useful, mainly because:
# hardware independence: a VM created on a PC can run on another PC without modification, if using the same (or nearly the same) virtualization product
# provide easy backup with snapshot functionality: user can ''save'' the state of a VM and later restore it with just a few clicks
# many VM can run on the same machine: limited only by host hardware resources, user can run as many guest VM as he/she likes at once
However such a flexibility comes with a bit of performance drawback: a VM is always slower than a physical machine.
Some VM manger, usually type 1 hypervisor (that runs directly on bare metal), can give to the VM nearly 100% of host horsepower but are harder to manage than the (slower) type 2 hypervisors, that runs as an application inside the host OS.
For a more detailed description of VMM and hypervisors, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor Hypervisor] article in Wikipedia.
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For this reason is useful to convert a Virtual Machine (like the one provided with [[:Category:DVDK|DVDK]]) into a physical machine, without the requirement to re-install the whole environment.
In the rest of this article we'll see how easily ''clone'' DVDK VM into a physical machine, on an empty harddisk (no OS installation is required before starting the clone procedure).
=== Prepare your environment ===
=== V2P Steps ===
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=== Introduction ===
Virtual Machine are really useful, mainly because:
# hardware independence: a VM created on a PC can run on another PC without modification, if using the same (or nearly the same) virtualization product
# provide easy backup with snapshot functionality: user can ''save'' the state of a VM and later restore it with just a few clicks
# many VM can run on the same machine: limited only by host hardware resources, user can run as many guest VM as he/she likes at once
However such a flexibility comes with a bit of performance drawback: a VM is always slower than a physical machine.
Some VM manger, usually type 1 hypervisor (that runs directly on bare metal), can give to the VM nearly 100% of host horsepower but are harder to manage than the (slower) type 2 hypervisors, that runs as an application inside the host OS.
For a more detailed description of VMM and hypervisors, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor Hypervisor] article in Wikipedia.
----
For this reason is useful to convert a Virtual Machine (like the one provided with [[:Category:DVDK|DVDK]]) into a physical machine, without the requirement to re-install the whole environment.
In the rest of this article we'll see how easily ''clone'' DVDK VM into a physical machine, on an empty harddisk (no OS installation is required before starting the clone procedure).
=== Prepare your environment ===
=== V2P Steps ===