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Hi

Is it possible to restore a image 2016 to a microsoft Windows Virtual PC ?

This is to try and resolve a minor problem on another pc before applying solution to original pc.

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Hello Stuart,

There are some KB documents which suggest that this may be possible though I have no direct experience of doing this myself, and an attempt I have made to restore an ATIH image to Oracle VM Virualbox was not successful and I haven't pursued it further.

See: 36187: Windows Activation Required after Restore with Acronis Universal Restore, Cloning or Converting Backup to Virtual Machine 

and 2149: Acronis Universal Restore

 

It's definitely possible with virtualbox and Vmware.  Image your machine like you normally would and save to a USB drive.  Build a new VM in either application (virtual box is free).  Boot to an Acronis offline recovery media .iso and recover the image to to your virtual machine hard drive.  In most cases, it will boot "as is" if the VM is hosted off of the original system since it shares the same hardware.  If the Vm is hosted on a new machine, you may have to then mount the Universal Restore .iso in the vm, boot to it and UR the VM system. After that it should boot.  Just be aware that VM's have the same restrictions  as physical machines (if the original image is Legacy/BIOS, your VM needs to be a legacy/bios bios install and vice-versa for UEFI).  

I've never tried with hyper-V, but imagine it would work there as well.  If not, just grab virtualbox if you don't want to fork over money for VMWare Workstation.