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Creating a VM from the Native OS

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Greg, welcome to these public User Forums.

The answer is yes but not by using Acronis True Image unless you take a roundabout route to do so, i.e. create an Acronis backup image, then restore that backup image to an existing virtual machine disk drive by booting the VM from the Acronis rescue media as if doing a bare-metal recovery of a regular disk drive.

Greg, only as advised in my previous reply based on the minimal information being provided here!

What are you wanting to do here that you want to use a VM for?

What type of VM are you looking at?

Steve,

I want to be able to duplicate my native OS, with all the installed software, as a VM.  This is all windows 10.

Thanks

Greg

Greg, thanks for the clarification of your question about VM.

The next question is, where are you intending to use such a VM if you create it?

I personally use VMware Player 15 (free version) with my own VM's, where the VM's were either created as new installs of Windows 7 and 10 in the VMware application, or else, I have restored a backup of a PC created by Acronis True Image previously by booting a VM from an ISO image of the Acronis Rescue Media, then used Acronis Universal Restore to apply any device drivers needed to allow the restored OS to run correctly in the new VM environment.

The performance of any VM will depend on the computer being used to host it, but will be less than the performance that would be achieved in running the same OS directly on the same hardware!

The PC I am using has an 8th generation Intel i7 CPU, 32GB RAM and running from a Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD, where I normally allocate 4 processors and 4GB RAM to the VM's I am running on top of Windows 10 on the host PC.

Greg,

You can create a VHD using Windows 10 Disk Management which then can be run in a VM.