If you have qemu-img, you should be able to do all of this from a command line dealing just with image files. qemu-img convert source.vmdk -O raw...

A bit late, but for reference I have successfully: Attach clonezilla to the virtual machine. Boot the virtual machine with clonezilla disk. Save...

You didn't mention what OS you're using and Alex's answer will not work on Windows and someone asked how to do this on Windows in the comments, so...

Have you tried booting into a BartPE cd (i.e. UltimateP2V ) and using Ghost? You'll probably run into driver problems once it gets on the hardware...

Try UDPCast. The idea is to stream the whole your vmdk out of it's Virtual Machine to physical machine, where it is written to the physical hdd....

Mount the drive in a VM or however, and snapshot it (www.drivesnapshot.de). Then mount the raw disk in a VM and restore the snapshot onto the disk....

The other answered provided do not address your question, I've identified the correct command to rescan an already connected disk. We must rescan...

You can do this without a reboot. pvresize doesn't resize the physical volume until the partition is updated with the added space. You must fdisk t...

As far as the root file system / is mounted on the disk that has been resized, the partition table and disk size are not refreshed by a SCSI rescan...

You need to rescan the disks before you can make the bigger partition. In Centos you can do this by. ls /sys/class/scsi_host. then for each host...

My PV was not in a partition, but existed on /dev/sdb directly. On Ubuntu 16.04.1 I was able to do the following to resize a volume from 1024GB to...

You've not provided us enough detail to tell you the exact commands you'll need but essentially you'll need to use the lvextend command to extend t...

No one has posted a complete set of commands, so here we go:

If you dont partition your PV before adding it and instead add the raw disk (/dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1) then you can skip the fdisk part entire...