How to Convert Virtual Machine to Physical Machine (Best Way)
About Virtual Machine
With the development of networking environment, virtual machine is widely used by people, especially enterprise users. It allows users to do many dangerous things (which may cause big damage to computer) without worrying about the safety of physical computer. It is useful in many situations. For example, developers can test apps in VMs to see whether their applications will work on a new OS.
Virtual machine has a lot of software like VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, etc. You need to install the software first to build a VM. Sometimes you may want to convert virtual machine to physical computer. How to do it?
Best tool to convert virtual machine to physical
Specialized backup and restore software - Qiling Disk Master Professional can not only help you convert virtual machine to physical (V2P) but also convert physical machine to virtual (P2V), even virtual machine to virtual machine (V2V). Following are some highlighted features of this software:
- You can use it to backup system, partition, disk, or single files.
- You can restore computer to an earlier date with the backup image. Its Universal Restore feature even allows you to restore system to a different computer without boot issues.
- It enables you to make bootable media to boot a crashed computer.
- It also offers the clone feature to help you upgrade hard drive to SSD without reinstalling OS.
It has different editions for different users. For PC users, you can use the Professional edition to perform V2P migration. For Server users, you can use the Server edition to work between your virtual machine and physical computer.
Here I'll take Qiling Disk Master Professional as an example to show you how to convert virtual machine to physical machine in Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11. Free download Qiling Disk Master right now!
Convert VM to physical with Qiling Disk Master
Speaking of converting virtual machine to physical computer, it is as same as doing a universal restore. Take converting VMware image to physical machine as an example. Here are the specific steps for you.
Preliminary work
1. Connect a USB drive to your computer. Then, set in the VM console to make the USB flash drive detected by the VM.
2. Install and run Qiling Disk Master on your virtual machine. Click Tools > Create Bootable Media to make a bootable USB drive.
3. Click Backup > System Backup to create a system backup image of your virtual machine. You can store the system image on the bootable USB (as long as the USB drive has enough capacity) or network location.
Virtual to physical conversion
Let's say you have saved the system image on the bootable USB drive. Follow the steps below to perform V2P migration.
Step 1. Shutdown the physical computer and boot it from the bootable USB.
Step 2. Qiling Disk Master will run automatically once your computer boots up. Select Restore and Select Image File. Then, choose the system backup image on your USB drive.
Step 3. Select Restore this system backup and tick Restore system to other location. Then, click Next.
Step 4. Select the destination partition to receive the restored data and click Next.
Step 5. You'll move to the page to confirm the information of your restore. Tick Universal Restore to ensure the system is bootable after restoration. If there is no problem, click Proceed to execute the operations.
✍ Tips:
* If the destination partition is on an SSD, we highly recommend you check SSD Alignment, because it will optimize SSD so that it will give a better performance after restoring.
* The steps also apply to converting VirtualBox machine to physical machine.
Verdict
Qiling Disk Master Professional is really a good backup and restore software for Windows PC users. Besides converting virtual machine to physical machine, it enables you to convert physical machine to virtual machine like VirtualBox and VMware without effort. Download it now to have a try!
If you want to migrate virtual machine to multiple physical computers, you may choose Qiling Disk Master Technician or Technician Plus edition and use the Qiling Image Deploy tool to deploy system image.
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