Question: I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 on a VMWare for sometime now. I did a lot of customization on it (e.g. remove unity, install my applications etc.).

Last week I managed to get another laptop and installed Ubuntu 11.10 on it. I was wondering if it's possible ot make these two Ubuntu system identical, i.e. move everything (settings, applications etc.) from my VM Ubuntu to my laptop Ubuntu.

Answer: 
You may also be able to create a template of the original VM and move it over to the laptop. 

<http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/2664-102-1-2324/V2P.doc>

That document discusses V2P migration for linux. 

I did this once but it was from a VM to a desktop with almost identical hardware. There were networking issues that were resolved with a simple if down up. 

Also if anyone is interested, the windows steps are :

<http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/doc/V2P_TechNote.pdf>

Never done them however. 

EDIT: This isnt really making a template of the original VM, I guess thats a misnomer. However this worked for me. Making a template and redeploying it on the laptop as a guest OS is also another option however that requires you to have VMware installed, probably not the path youre looking for.
You can try [clonezilla](http://clonezilla.org/). It supports several file systems.