Clone from VM to physical machine
 

Ok, this will prob make for a very daft question, but I'll fire away.

I have a dedicated webserver with OVH. Since they're miserable, they won't let me install from stratch, so I have to put-up with their extra bloat, aka "tweaks".

Now, I have a VM (VMware Workstation) of the server the way I want it, and I was wondering if there is a way to clone my VM to the ovh server and overwrite their image. Do remember, all I have is SSH acccess, I have no physical access.

So, the question stands, can I get my VM onto the server, and running as the default OS, overwriting the existing OS?

Thanks for the help....

Does your server have a rescue system that you can boot into?

Yeah, they do, but I have no idea what distro it's based, and the few times I used it, it seemed very, very limited. You think I could boot into that, then maybe scp the files from my VM to the server HDD, edit the hostname, network config, etc, and then install grup to the server's hdd?

Yes, that should work. You can try this with netcat: http://www.howtoforge.com/useful-uses-of-netcat

Ok, thanks. I'm gonna continue tinkering at the VM for now, and I'll clone it closer to the system's renewal time (February)