Ghost 9 upward and SSR were based on PowerQuest drive image 6. They still support .PQI image files.
They can covert them to both .VHD or .vmdk virtual hard drives.
I don't think they will do it in trial mode, I think you need to purchase the product first.
That said, if whatever virtual pc software your using can match the original systems hal and hard drive controller you may not need to convery anything.
I have old .PQI images of an XP system that had IDE drives and a single core CPU and I can simply restore the images onto a new VPC and have them boot.
I 'think' vmware lets you choose a virtual sata drive but I'm not to familiar with that product.
Dave