title: Boot a physical machine directly from a virtual image
body: <p>I have been searching for a way to boot a physical machine from a virtual image (.vhd or .vmdk). I found solutions using the loader that Microsoft provides with windows 7, but that is not of much real help to me because we will not be using windows.</p>
  <p>There was a software called VBoot that claimed to do it, but apparently it only works on NTFS file system (which doesn't make it any more useful the Microsoft's loader).</p>
  <p>The bigger picture is to natively boot many physical machines using virtual images, but if I'm able to work out booting even a single machine, the other things can be done.</p>