Ghost recovery cd will not start in VM

[fpefpe2]

Greetings --

Sorry if this is a repost -- here is the issue

I am trying to restore a win/me system in a vm. I have a Ghost 9 backup of it. I Created an empty vm and

tried to restore it using the ghost cd. The system started, but just stoped at the point were it was examining the "system"

It stood that way for 20 minutes untill I stop it. I thought I did this with an early verison of workstation ( I am running with 6.5.3 )

Did I miss something with this process?

Thanks

Frank

[PaulSvirin]

Maybe you should definitely upgrade to Workstation 7.

And, do the logs say that the VM run ok?

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iSCSI SAN software

[continuum]

did you assign enough RAM and set the guestOS type to winnetenterprise while trying to boot that CD ?




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[fpefpe2]

Greetings --

Thanks for your reply

Going to v7 is not possible at this point.

Here is the log .... As you can see at the bottom there is about a 7 minute gap from when the cd/os started and I stop the vm

Thanks in advance for any help

Frank

[fpefpe2]

Greetings --

I changed the os to winnetenterprise and the ram is at 512mb ... The results ware the same.

I tried to boot the cd on an old laptop with 500mb of ram and it start fine.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated

Frank

[continuum]

try without floppy-drive




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[fpefpe2]

Greetings --

Removing the floppy did not make a difference .... I thought that there might be an issue with the iso image, so I used CD and its still

remained the same .... just sitting with the solid line at the bottom of the screen saying "please wait"

[continuum · Accepted solution]

next things I would try ...

- add even more RAM

- remove 3d and USB support

- remove the SCSI-controller

if that does not help try to run it as a WS 6.0 compatible VM

what is the exact name of that iso ? - is it based on PE or DOS ? - I don't remember right now.

Do you need to recover a *.gho file or do you have a different extension ?




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[fpefpe2]

Greetings --

That did it ... the recovery cd is DOS based and my guest is that 6.5 has hardware it does not understand

Thanks

Frank