Deploy a VM on a physical computer?

[Bristow 0]

To facilitate a one-day deployment of Linux workstations, I was wondering if I could prepare a LinuxMint VM, save it on FOG and then downgrade it to a physical workstation (several different ones).

Will this work?

[rodluz]

@bristow-0 I do all my images using Proxmox VMs and I haven’t had any issues. In my case, I only deploy Sysprep-ed Windows so I’m not sure how it would work with Linux. I know that Sysprep strips away any hardware-specific data from the Windows image, so you would need to do the same for Linux.

[rodluz]

@Bristow-0 Doing some google-ing, seems like there is a package named virt-sysprep that does something very similar to what Windows Sysprep does. I will play around with it on a VM later today and let you know how it goes.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Bristow-0 Usually Linux is a lot easier to deploy to different hardware because most distros provide a huge amount of kernel drivers detecting hardware on bootup. Though there are cases e.g. on RAID where a deployed Linux won’t start. I would just give is a try, Install your Linux of choice in a VM, capture and deploy to a few machines.

[Bristow 0]

Thank you for your answers. I’ll give it a try and let you know!