We have a number of VMWare Server 2.0 virtual machines that were created using VMWare Converter (It copies a physical machine to a virtual machine). If we need to convert the virtual machine back to a physical machine is there way to accomplish this easily? Essentially doing the VMWare Converter process in reverse.
Can a VMWare Server 2.0 virtual machine be “unvirtualized” to physical hardware
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Best Answer
This VMware guide on virtual to physical machine migrations should be a good start, though it looks like you're required to use 3rd party tools like Sysprep and Symantec Ghost.
PlateSpin makes a commercial tool called PowerConvert that does both Physical-to-Virtual and Virtual-to-Physical conversions.