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Is it possible to install a vmware to a hard drive?

Is it possible to install a vmware image directly to a partitioned hard drive?

I assume you mean extract the contents of the file onto a standalone drive.
It would defeat the point of virtualization.

a VMware image is not installable but only runnable.
in fact, before a vmdk (VMware DisK) can be started in VMware, an operating system has to be INSTALLED in the Virtual Machine, just as on any normal PC, including providing a license key if the OS requires one.
even though VMware server comes with an utility that allows to mount a vmdk file as a drive (like for example PowerISO allows to mount many CD or DVD image files) copying the content itself is useless as the destination partition still needs to be made bootable for the copied OS.
bottom line, no, not really.