acronis trueimage 10

[ycab]

how can i convert an acronis trueimage 10 file to a virtual machine?

[asatoran]

Create a new VM. Boot the VM with the Trueimage restore disk/CD and restore the VM just as you would a physical machine. Then run Converter on the new VM and choose "Configure Machine" instead of "Import."

[IB_IT]

We have used acronis trueimage for a few machines. What we have done was bring up a temp or "helper" VM and add an additional disk drive with appropriate storage capabilities for your system partition. Be careful to image the ENTIRE system disk and not just the "C" drive. If you have any utility partitions before your system partition and you only acronis the C drive, then this process won't work unless you modify the boot.ini file.

So:

-Acronis the system partition

-add disk with enough space as an add-on to a new VM with Acronis installed

-Use Acronis to restore the tib to the add-on drive

-Run P2V asssitant

-Shut down helper VM and unmount the extra drives

You now have the acronis'd server in .vmdk and should be able to create a brand new bootable server with these vmdk files. You can then easily add the data drives as well with acronis.

Note: make sure if you are Acronising a Win2000 server that you use BUS Logic and for Win2k3 use LSI Logic

Been a while since I have had to use this since we finished our P2V projects, so I am pulling this from memory...that should give you an idea, though. Hope this helps.

[asatoran]

Converter is the current product and replaces P2V assistant. Converter often has trouble if there is a utility paritions that gets converted over. Thus you'll see many posts in this forum recommend not restore the utility partition if you have errors running Converter. (And of course, you'd have to confirm your BOOT.INI.)

So try it as suggested by IB_IT, but if that fails, try the conversion again without the utility partition.

[IB_IT]

That could very well be...I am now currently running on VI3, but all my P2V's were done when I was on version 2. Haven't had a need for P2V since then, so I didn't know the new product was called converter. I have read other posts online where P2V was successfully run on VI3, although it is officially unsupported. Thanks for the info! I will have to check out Converter.