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VMware Workstation Virtual to Physical

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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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For converting virtual machine to physical Advanced Workstation will work too. It's hard to say what went wrong the last time you tried it, but you need to specify the drivers for the target hardware. Note that you need a license of Advanced Workstation for each machine you will be transferring this way.

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?

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.

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.

For this purpose True Image 2013 (with Plus Pack, for Universal Restore) should work too.