I have used mondoarchive to create a rescueimage of a HP DL380 with a smart array (RAID5), running linux using the cciss driver. I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to restore the rescue image to a new VM running on VMware Server 1. The problem I have is that VMware doesnt appear to emulate the cciss driver I need for the image to be able to work. (the physical server I am restoring to doesnt have a smart array card in it, just /dev/sda, but that shouldnt matter anyway to VMware??). To make things more complex the rescue image also contains LVM data.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of what I should do next. I thought I would be able to create a VM and restore the rescue image regardless of what was going on 'underneath' the OS.

Any pointers gratefully received.