<p>Vbox will read vmware images so just make a image and point at it from vbox, should work.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 2, 2012 12:23 PM, "Calvin Harrigan" <<a href="mailto:charriglists@bellsouth.net">charriglists@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 3/2/2012 11:56 AM, Neal Rhodes wrote:<br>
> So, you would boot Acronis CD, make a Win7 image to a USB disk drive,<br>
> then boot Centos, then create a new VM, give it access to the USB drive,<br>
> boot Acronis in the VM, and tell it to restore the backup image?<br>
><br>
> I recall reading that Acronis would finagle the hardware differences<br>
> when restoring backups.<br>
><br>
> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 11:36 -0500, John Pilman wrote:<br>
>> I believe Acronis software has the functionality to image Windows 7<br>
>> and deposit it as a virtual machine.<br>
>><br>
>> ...John<br>
>><br>
+1<br>
Acronis will do this, I've done it several times. The feature is called<br>
universal restore. I have not used it to restore an image that will be<br>
booted in an environments different than vmware's. It may or may not work.<br>
<br>
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