US Patent 11263082 Data recovery of guest virtual machines

A method of performing data recovery of a first virtual machine (VM) hosted on a first hypervisor to a second hypervisor that is different from the first hypervisor is provided. The method identifies information indicating format of a first virtual disk in a backup of the first VM, and creates a second virtual disk using the information indicating format of the first virtual disk. The method also accesses information indicating configuration of the first VM and metadata of the first virtual disk, and creates a second VM hosted on the second hypervisor using the information indicating configuration of the first VM and the metadata of the first virtual disk. The method further attaches the second virtual disk to the second VM.