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Hi,<br />
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Neither Converter, nor any other VMware product, currently supports going from a virtual machine to a physical machine. &nbsp;<br />
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VMware provides a guide for performing V2P migrations, at &nbsp;<a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/</a> .<br />
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Note: The technical note and sample configurations for performing a virtual to physical conversion are provided for information only .
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Migrating to a Physical Machine, e.g. V2P, requires commercial software.<br />
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from Acronis, Platespin, Storagecraft, and Vision Solutions If you want an automated solution Acronis products with Universal Restore, is the cheapest option..<br />
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If you want to complete it manually see the example here<br />
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<a href="http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/virtual-to-physical-conversions-v2p/" rel="ugc">http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/virtual-to-physical-conversions-v2p/</a><br />
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(it does not matter it's Hyper-V)
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No, that needs no commercial tool, any backup solution is able to do that, even windows own image backup.<br />
If the restored image bluescreens &quot;000007b&quot; on start because it might no longer have the driver for the hard drive controller, you will have to insert that driver. Can be done manually, but is easily done with <a href="http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/" rel="ugc">http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/</a>&nbsp;and its option --addDriver<br />
Drive snapshot offers to download a fully functional trial that needs no installation. Simply restore the image of the VM to the physical hard drive.
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Thank you everyone. All comments were helpful and I'm glad this didn't turn into a P2V or &quot;Why don't you leave it as a VM&quot; discussion!
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This is a V2P Question, not a P2V!<br />
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I need a solution that will take a Windows 7 VM on ESX 5.1 and convert it to a bare metal system. &nbsp;I had the fortune of doing the reverse - a P2V - just before my hardware crashed on my laptop. So, now I have my laptop in a VM on ESX. &nbsp;I just acquired the same hardware that crashed and I'd like to find a cheap and hopefully easy way to do it.<br />
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I've looked at a few expensive options that cost more than my laptop, hopefully there is a cheaper way.
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This is a V2P Question, not a P2V!

I need a solution that will take a Windows 7 VM on ESX 5.1 and convert it to a bare metal system.  I had the fortune of doing the reverse - a P2V - just before my hardware crashed on my laptop. So, now I have my laptop in a VM on ESX.  I just acquired the same hardware that crashed and I'd like to find a cheap and hopefully easy way to do it.

I've looked at a few expensive options that cost more than my laptop, hopefully there is a cheaper way.

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