Part 1: Copy VM to Physical Harddisk:
Option 1:
- Shutdown your (i.e) source.vdi completely
- Use USB-HDD adaptor, plug in the target harddisk
- Get GParted LiveCD ISO
- From root user, create new VM using wizard and directly mount the detected USB-HDD adaptor
- Add GParted LiveCD ISO and source.vdi to the VM, and set it to boot from CD
- Start the VM, GParted launched
- Copy the whole partition from source to target & resize the copied partition if necessary.
- Shutdown the VM
Option 2:
- Shutdown your (i.e) source.vdi completely
- From root user, create (i.e) target.vmdk from (i.e) /dev/sdb using this command: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename target.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb
- Get GParted LiveCD ISO
- From root user, create new VM using wizard and directly mount target.vmdk (theoritically it can be mounted after the VM wizard complete but I always got un-explainable error)
- Add GParted LiveCD ISO and source.vdi to the VM, and set it to boot from CD
Start the VM, GParted launched - Copy the whole partition from source to target & resize the copied partition if necessary.
- Shutdown the VM
Part 2: Fix GRUB from physical hardware:
- Plug in the harddisk (i.e) /dev/sda
- Boot to CD or USB (NEVER FROM RUNNING OS!!!)
- sudo su
- mkdir /media/target
- mount /dev/sda1 /media/target
- mount –bind /dev /media/target/dev
- mount –bind /proc /media/target/proc
- mount –bind /sys /media/target/sys
- chroot /media/target
- grub-install /dev/sda
- exit
- reboot