Derek12 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I have installed mac os lion 1.7.2 in Vmware and it's fine (though it doesn't recognixze my CPU and says unknown) but I want to move it to a physical partition, I've read somewhere that can be done but I do not have any CD DVD drives (well I have it but it's now broken) nor a big USB disk (only 2 GB). Would it be possible? I have a Gigabyte H61M -S2-B3, Intel celeron G530 and 2 GB RAM, and 315 GB hard disk. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274747-move-virtual-machine-into-physical-possible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 You could use Disk Utility to restore it to a hard drive partition. You'd have to get the virtual machine's disk image converted to a format that Disk Utility can understand first. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274747-move-virtual-machine-into-physical-possible/#findComment-1787136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek12 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Many thanks and sorry for posting on wrong forum Disk Utility doesn't show my physical drive at all How can I make it show? Many thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274747-move-virtual-machine-into-physical-possible/#findComment-1787365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 lol I don't know what I was thinking. I'm not sure what I suggested is even possible, unless you have access to a Mac or working Hackintosh already. An 8GB USB flash drive can be had for about 15 Dollars. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274747-move-virtual-machine-into-physical-possible/#findComment-1787367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek12 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 lol I don't know what I was thinking. I'm not sure what I suggested is even possible, unless you have access to a Mac or working Hackintosh already. An 8GB USB flash drive can be had for about 15 Dollars. Don't worry I am afraid I don't have access to any Mac or Hackintosh machine besides this VM I've manage to mount a physical partition to the VM creating a new hard drive and pointing to the physical drive with VMware, then I've followed the instructions the same way as if it was a USB drive but using one of the free partitions... But the resulting partition is not bootable as the MB BIOS stucks in "Loading Operating system" when I select that partition with Plop Boot manager, and Windows Disk Manager shows a very strange layout and doesn't let me to do anything with that partition which says it's a recovery partition huh! Maybe the only solution is to get the 8 GB drive but here is a bit more expensive about 40 Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274747-move-virtual-machine-into-physical-possible/#findComment-1787443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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