Moving from VM to hardware?

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As the title says is there a best practice if I’m moving from a VM to a mini PC ? Been running start9 in VMware box for a few weeks and now I wanna push it off to a g3 plus by gmktec. It’s a new drive and hardware so I was pretty sure the copy over wouldn’t work properly? I have a ton of services running and would like to keep some of my tor and local addresses if possible. Thanks y’all

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StartOS itself has no idea what it’s running on, VM or otherwise. So on that front we’re good.

Next, when installing StartOS on the mini PC, you’d select to Transfer (Start9 | Transfer Data to a New Drive). For this, you’d need to have the VM drive available, and here is where you have extra steps.

I don’t know what the latest combination of points and clicks are for these steps, but within VMware there is the option to clone a disk, and you’ve clone it to a USB drive, then move that drive to the mini PC for transferring it. This means when setting up the mini PC, you’ll have your empty internal drive, a USB thumb drive with StartOS and a USB SSD in an adaptor all plugged in. Make sense?

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Seems straight forward, just to beat a dead horse;

*Install new, empty drive in the mini pc
*Put StartOS on a usb drive per doc’s on site
*Clone disc in vmware to usbc-ssd type large samsung ext drive
*If needed change bios to boot to usb
*Connect usb StartOS and usbc-ssd drive to mini pc
*Turn on mini pc and follow prompts
*Recovery>Transfer>SourceDrive>NewDrive>New/SamePassword
** Woot **

Thanks from a mile above Denver :wink:

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