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If you need to restore a Windows MBR, you can find a Linux program named ms-sys very helpful. Note here how 63*512 equals 32256 which is the offset of the virtual disk image used in the example in the main post. Just runДd if=diskimage-flat.vmdk of=/dev/sda1 bs=512 skip=63 Say that you want to write the image to physical partition sda1. Remember to mark the partition bootable if you need to boot to it. Create a similar partition to the destination hard disk with fdisk. Of course you also need some media to hold the virtual disk image.ДЄnd check the partition table. I recommend Ubuntu 8.10 desktop installation CD that also works as a live CD (find with md5sum 24ea1163ea6c9f5dae77de8c49ee7c03). You only need a Linux live CD for this operation. I was able to restore a 11GB Windows XP partition (drive C:) by this way. Interestingly but not surprisingly you can also write the flat disk image (in the example diskimage-flat.vmdk) directly to the disk. The offset is the start of the partition per the number of bytes per sector (63*512 in my case). To check it, run the first command, then use fdisk on the first loopback device: The offset in the second command might change for a different virtual disk (although I don't tink so if you want to mount the first partition). Let's assume that the disk image is located at /diskimage-flat.vmdk (quite unlikely, but it's OK for an example) and that there are no other loopback devices in use (i.e. After all, the flat vmdk file is just a raw image of the disk, so you just need to use it as a loopback device.

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VMWare server provides a tool to mount vmdk files, but I don't want to install it just to be able to use that command.ДЇortunately, I'm using a flat VMWare image, and this makes possibile to mount the image vithout any special tool. The easiest solution is to mount it as a local drive and access files from a real Linux installation. It is a very nice solution, nevertheless when I run it at home I feel quite frustrated for not being able to run it on real hardware.

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I use a VMWare virtual machine to run my favorite software anywhere.

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