VMware Workstation Virtual to Physical
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Workstation + Universal Restore
I have several VMware Workstation 9x virtual operating systems. These are all Windows operating systems ranging from XP to 8.1. I would like to backup and restore these to physical hard drives using the Universal Restore. I was reading this article here and sounded like what I was looking for.
Convert virtual machine to physical. V2P solutions from Acronis
http://www.acronis.com/articles/v2p/
That applies to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition
I was wondering if I can do the same thing with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Workstation + Universal Restore?
Please let me explain in further detail of what I would like to do.
Create a VMware Windows Operating system on one computer and restore it to another computer with an empty hard drive. I tried this once before running Acronis from within the VMware operating system and restore using Universal, but got blue screen of death upon booting the computer up.

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Perhaps because I didn't supply drivers upon the universal restore was the issue before.
So to understand the procedure better for doing this...
What would be the best procedure for backing up a VMWare? Last time I used a boot cd and created the image that way.
Edit: I guess I am not really "converting" whereas I am creating backup from within the VMWare environment.
Should I be using something else that actually converts a VMware to .tib for restoration to a physical?
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For VMWare workstation it's the most convenient way to create the image. You can't create a backup of vmdk files from the host OS with Acronis to restore the guest OS they contain to a physical machine.
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I guess I am not understanding the specific need for Workstation or Advanced Workstation versus say a True Image 2013 Bootable cd since I will be creating the image from within the VMWare Workstation and booting it from a CD to create the image.
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For this purpose True Image 2013 (with Plus Pack, for Universal Restore) should work too.
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