restore physical computer from virtual machine?
I have to do a clean rebuild of my system and this takes about 3 days– the down time is too long. I would like to know if it is possible to:
1) rebuild my system in a virtual machine using VMWare
2) Make an image backup of the virtual machine using Acronis
3) Restore my physical computer using the image backup of the virtual machine.
The reason for proposing the above approach would be that I would be able to continue working on my physical computer while I rebuilding it in the virtual machine. I currently have Acronis 2010.
Thanks,
Ian
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Hi Pat,
I have learned that what I want is actually referred to as V2P (virtual to physical) and ATI does not does not offer this functionality. In short, I will have to rebuild my physical machine from scratch - no shortcuts.
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It may not support it directly, but you could still probably do it with UR (as Pat L suggested). However, another option if you don't want to multi-boot during the setup is to create a backup of the current partition and then reinstall Windows. Work on it for a while and then back it up and restore the old system to continue with your work. Back up and restore as necessary until you've gotten the new system configured how you want. If you're not working with a ton of data it doesn't take that much time. I've done lots of setups like this, though I usually go the multi-boot route.
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Just for informational purposes vmProtect does allow P2V and V2P as does ABR11.
vmProtect only works with VMWare (full version).
What i would suggest doing is installing your main OS as a VHD, this is relatively easy to do, and then TIH 2010 would be able to produce a normal tib file from within the OS and of course it can be converted to VHD if neccessary.
To create the main OS as a VHD you need to run the Windows 7 installer, press shift+f10 when you get to the keyboard and country wizard, this will drop you into a command prompt. From there Diskpart is used to create a VHD and attach it to the disk system. Once completed, exit out of Diskpart and exit out of the command prompt, this will bring you back to the Windows installer. Select custom install and select the VHD as the disk to install Windows to. after that it only remains to ensure that the BCD points to the VHD to boot. This does assume you are booting W7 Ultimate or Enterprise.
I can give you the complete steps to take, or there are some KB articles in the Microsoft KB page.
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