I'm not familiar with tools on Windows, though, so I don't know if there's one that can do that. It might even be possible to attach the VHDX of the installation (in read-only mode) to the host and perform a direct drive-to-drive clone. If you have set up an SMB share or something similar on the host, you can probably dump it directly over the virtual network to a volume on your host instead. Then, you can use whatever writer tool you like on Windows to write the raw image to a USB flash drive. 1. Unmount and shut down the VM, then detach the VHDX that contains the image from the VM and attach it to the host. Optionally, perform a checksum (using 7-Zip or another tool) and compare it with the one you obtained in step 4. 2. Use `dd` or even just `cat` to dump a raw image of the virtual disk where the installation resides to the file system mounted in step 3. You might even optionally use `tee` additionally to perform a checksum (e.g., SHA1 sum on-the-fly). 3. Partition and format the virtual disk attached in step 1 as NTFS or exFAT, then mount the file system. 4. Attach a live ISO to the VM and boot that instead of the installation. 5. Create an additional VHDX for the VM. I might do this instead to avoid any bug/flaw in any of the conversion tools: Let me know if you need any further changes!
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