People are usually honest beings. In fact, the world keeps moving forward in spite of all the scandals, frauds and the corruption because an overwhelming number of us believe in each other, trust each other. It's this same inherent built-in trust that makes us trust our cloud providers. And for the most part, we are not going to be wrong. Trust is a good thing. For our cloud providers, we trust that they aren't reading the memory pages of our containers. We trust that they aren't trying to inject the untrusted arbitrary code during the execution. We trust that they aren't snooping on our workloads just to launch a competitive service on their platform. For most of us, it's not just a simple cautious trust that it should be by default, but rather a complete blind trust. System Enforced Trust Photo by Benny Meier on Unsplash Most of the people understand and respect those lines on the road. They understand going on the other side when you are not sup
So you might have had a great Virtual Machine which has your development environment or maybe a specific build environment. You think the time has come now to free this VM and give its own dedicated hardware. Or even none of the above is true, you want to do it because you can :) You will have to go do what is called as v2p (Virtual to Physical) migration. So let's just think about what exactly we are trying to do. We have Virtual Machine running inside a VirtualBox which has its own virtual hard disk. The converting a virtual machine to a physical machine is mainly about changing this virtual machine operating system boot from a physical real hard disk than virtual hard disk on which it was running when inside VirtualBox. VirtualBox comes with one hidden command under its hood, convettoraw! This can be used in the following manner, VBoxMange internal commands converttoraw your.vdi your.raw So now you have a raw image of your VM (pleaes note that if you have a V