Xen users - Jul 2009 - Is it possible to restore an image into a domU using Acronis?

Is it possible to restore an image of a physical machine into a domU
using Acronis? When I try to boot off the Acronis CD I get "Starting
Acronis Loader..." but it goes no farther.

Anyone else have any experience with this?

Thanks,
James


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Yes this possible...

We did some P2V Migrations to Xen with Acronis TI Echo Workstation, but instead
of the
Acronis boot-cd we used a bartpe image with XP SP3 and drivers from
driverpacks.net
integrated. This works great, since you can boot from nearly all kind of
hardware.

Regards,

Guido


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usingAcronis?

Is it possible to restore an image of a physical machine into a domU
using Acronis? When I try to boot off the Acronis CD I get "Starting
Acronis Loader..." but it goes no farther.

Anyone else have any experience with this?

Thanks,
James


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On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 17:24 +1200, Jan Bakuwel wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Yes done that successfully with the latest version of Acronis...
> 
> cheers,
> Jan
I have not gotten this to work on my SLES10SP2 servers. Now I''m trying
it on a xen server built on CentOS 5. I can''t get the test domU to boot
off the cdrom. The config file looks like:

name="acronistest"
uuid="6b04e99e-914a-f3fc-ef25-fbdabd72b430"
memory=512
vcpus=2
on_poweroff="destroy"
on_reboot="destroy"
on_crash="destroy"
localtime=1

builder="hvm"
extid=0
device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
boot="d"
disk=[ ''phy:/dev/cdrom,hda:cdrom,r'',
''file:/var/lib/xen/images/acronistest/disk0,hdc,w'', ]
vif=[ ''mac=00:16:3e:1a:fe:3f,model=rtl8139,type=ioemu'', ]
stdvga=0
vnc=1
vncunused=1
apic=1
acpi=1
pae=1

usb=1
usbdevice=''tablet''

serial="pty"

How can I force it to boot off the cdrom?

Thanks,
James


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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:57 PM, James Pifer<jep@obrien-pifer.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 17:24 +1200, Jan Bakuwel wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Yes done that successfully with the latest version of Acronis...
>>
>> cheers,
>> Jan
>
> I have not gotten this to work on my SLES10SP2 servers. Now I''m
trying
> it on a xen server built on CentOS 5. I can''t get the test domU to
boot
> off the cdrom. The config file looks like:
>
> name="acronistest"
> uuid="6b04e99e-914a-f3fc-ef25-fbdabd72b430"
> memory=512
> vcpus=2
> on_poweroff="destroy"
> on_reboot="destroy"
> on_crash="destroy"
> localtime=1
>
> builder="hvm"
> extid=0
> device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
> kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> boot="d"
> disk=[ ''phy:/dev/cdrom,hda:cdrom,r'',
''file:/var/lib/xen/images/acronistest/disk0,hdc,w'', ]
> vif=[ ''mac=00:16:3e:1a:fe:3f,model=rtl8139,type=ioemu'', ]
> stdvga=0
> vnc=1
> vncunused=1
> apic=1
> acpi=1
> pae=1
>
> usb=1
> usbdevice=''tablet''
>
> serial="pty"
>
> How can I force it to boot off the cdrom?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
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I experienced the same problem booting Acronis cd''s under Xen, they
all hang at "Starting Acronis Loader...", we have True Image Server
for Linux (not the newer Echo version) with support so I emailed
Acronis and they sent me a alternative boot iso called
TrueImageLinuxServer8072_multiparam_Standard_english_il.iso which
boots ok, however emulated disk and network performance is not as good
as when using pv drivers and it makes a big difference to a task like
reading a 50gb image and writing it to disk, so instead of using the
rescue boot cd I now either run TrueImage in dom0 or add the disk I
want to backup or restore to a spare windows 2003 hvm which has gplpv
drivers loaded.

Andy

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> ..... or add the disk I want to backup or restore to a spare windows 2003
hvm which has gplpv drivers loaded.
> 
> Andy
Andy, 

Thanks for the response. Can you give me a little more info behind the
last part? How do you mean "add the disk I want to backup or restore to
a spare windows 2003 hvm"?

In my case I have an acronis image (three tib files) that I''m being
asked to restore to a domU. The original server that the image was made
from is no longer available. 

Thanks,
James


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I have done something somewhat similar on QEMU host with a WinXP guest on
dual boot partition (I suppose I can treat restored image as a bootable
partition).
The  main problem was about ntldr - and it was solved using fixntldr.iso (
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm or something like that).
Maybe that will help you,
ZP.

2009/7/30 James Pifer <jep@obrien-pifer.com>
> > ..... or add the disk I want to backup or restore to a spare windows
2003
> hvm which has gplpv drivers loaded.
> >
> > Andy
>
> Andy,
>
> Thanks for the response. Can you give me a little more info behind the
> last part? How do you mean "add the disk I want to backup or restore
to
> a spare windows 2003 hvm"?
>
> In my case I have an acronis image (three tib files) that I''m
being
> asked to restore to a domU. The original server that the image was made
> from is no longer available.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
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