Acronis tib file Supported by VMWARE Converter
Does anyone know if the tib file produced by Acronis True Image 2012 is supported by the VMWARE converter program v5? I have mad a sector by sector image of a machine using ATI 2012 and when I try to convert it, I am getting the message that there source parameters are invalid.
Thanks for any help.
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I'm afraid that it may be a bit old and without specifying exact version of TI... well, from
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2003446 :
From the Converter 5.0 manual p22: "Supported sources: .... Acronis True Image Echo 9.1, 9.5, and Acronis True Image Home 10 and 11 (.tib). ...."
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I haven't tried it recently, but previously I didn't have any success using the converter with any of the newer versions of TIB files. I ended up using Echo.
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From my personal experience, TI version 10 files work with the VMWare Converter; version 2011 and 2012 do not. I'm not sure about any TI versions in-between these.
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Windows 7 TIB from ATI11 works with VMWare Player 4.
Fixed the ClassPNP error with ATI12
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Take a look at this thread: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/24164
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Hi
After alot of research and downloading latest convertor, workstation and esxi, I could not import a tib from acronis ti 2013.
Converting to vhd didnt work either.
My way round it....
Create tib
Create acronis boot cd
Create iso of boot cd
Upload iso to datastore.
Create a new vm machine with enough space for at least min system/data usage of tib image. Thin or thick....
Mount boot iso to a vm cd drive. Set to boot from power on.
At the usual ti boot menu, either create path to a network store or add a usb source with tib. Guess also a dvd tib... Mount the new device.
At acronis menu, find new device and tib. Restore disk inc boot partition if there is one. unmount acronis iso and power on vm.
After some restarts to detect host/vm hardware, your restored system is good to go.
Prob worth installing vmware tools as well...
Roundabout way to do this, but it works....
Tony
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Surprisingly enough, Tony Shorthouse's method worked quite well. While a bit cumbersome and lengthy in time to do, the end effect was still successful.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/30169#comment-159305
As dev-anon stated,
"From the Converter 5.0 manual p22: "Supported sources: .... Acronis True Image Echo 9.1, 9.5, and Acronis True Image Home 10 and 11 (.tib). "
As others have tried, I made the .tib file using True Image Home 2013 and was unable to work get a valid .vhd file for use with Virtual PC.
While I can understand an issue converting a Virtual PC to VMWare, I don't understand why True Image Home 2013 did not produce me a working vhd file to even use from within Windows 7's Virtual PC. Actually, it's kind of aggravating to have the feature and then not work.
Another user posted the Winimage method of opening the vhd produced by the Acronis converter. This method also failed, but was able to open the normal Windows XP vhd file. So that at least tells me that his method may work if having a working copy of the vhd.
I usually use a True Image Home 2011 Bootable CD to make my backup of a customer's drive. This time I opted to use 2013 installed from within Windows. As I mentioned above; no matter what VMWare's converter supports; never versions of True Image Home (2012-2014) should still convert to a "working" copy of the vhd using it's converter.
Having the opportunity to pull the hard drive, I would have used my installed Advanced Workstation 11.5.
Note: ironic how Tony's post was just a couple days before mine. And the one before that was from 2012. Has I searched this 2 days ago, I would still be prowling the forums. Thanks for the post Tony :)
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