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From: News on 26 Feb 2010 13:07 Is there a tool to convert ghost or acronis image files to VHDs? thanks Craig
From: Bo Berglund on 26 Feb 2010 14:00 On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:07:14 -0600, "News" <nf(a)no.com> wrote: >Is there a tool to convert ghost or acronis image files to VHDs? > Yes, Ghost or Acronis..... Create a virtual machine, boot if from the boot CD image and restore the image to the virtual disk. -- Bo Berglund (Sweden)
From: Steve Jain [MVP] on 26 Feb 2010 14:05 On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:07:14 -0600, "News" <nf(a)no.com> wrote: >Is there a tool to convert ghost or acronis image files to VHDs? > >thanks >Craig > VMWare has a converter program, but I've heard mixed reviews of its success rates: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ You can just boot a new VM and then run the imaging program and dump the image into the VM. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ http://smudj.wordpress.com/
From: d d on 26 Feb 2010 14:39 Steve Jain [MVP] wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:07:14 -0600, "News" <nf(a)no.com> wrote: > >> Is there a tool to convert ghost or acronis image files to VHDs? >> >> thanks >> Craig >> > > VMWare has a converter program, but I've heard mixed reviews of its > success rates: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ > > You can just boot a new VM and then run the imaging program and dump > the image into the VM. > What about the issue of the installation being tied to the processor number and the combination of devices ? I regularly backup my computers of course, mostly as protection against a hard drive death or a massive virus infection. I've always assumed there's not much point though from the point of view of it being useful in the case where a machine completely dies and needs replacing. Am I wrong? Can that backup be restored to a new machine ?
From: Bo Berglund on 26 Feb 2010 17:53
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:39:31 +0100, d d <go_on_try_and_sp(a)m_me.com> wrote: >Steve Jain [MVP] wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:07:14 -0600, "News" <nf(a)no.com> wrote: >> >>> Is there a tool to convert ghost or acronis image files to VHDs? >>> >>> thanks >>> Craig >>> >> >> VMWare has a converter program, but I've heard mixed reviews of its >> success rates: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ >> >> You can just boot a new VM and then run the imaging program and dump >> the image into the VM. >> > >What about the issue of the installation being tied to the processor >number and the combination of devices ? > >I regularly backup my computers of course, mostly as protection against >a hard drive death or a massive virus infection. I've always assumed >there's not much point though from the point of view of it being useful >in the case where a machine completely dies and needs replacing. Am I >wrong? Can that backup be restored to a new machine ? Well, digressing from the topic of this NG, the whole point of backup software surely is as a means of rescue from disaster? So, yes, you can restore to a new machine. There may be problems encountered due to the different hardware environment in the new PC so that for instance Windows will have trouble starting up. But then you can do a rescue install from the OS CD and it will sort things out. Or, with Acronis you can use their "Universal Restore" feature, which will handle the hardware differences between the source and target hardware platform nicely. That actually comes in very handy when going to a virtual machine (P2V) since those invaribly have very different (emulated) hardware. -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |