acronis imaging inside VirtualBox

[sean14760]

I am trying to restore an Acronis image inside VirtualBox but I have two sata drives in my machine and the drive that is storing the .tib image is not being picked up on the list of available drives. I have the .vdi image installed on my C:\ drive and the .tib image is on my d:\ drive. I s there a way in virtual box to make it recognize the sata drive with the .tib image so I can restore it in acronis inside virtualbox? I was able to do it with the drive with the image hooked to the pc through a USB dock but because the image is 30GB it takes about 21 hours. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-sean-

[vbox4me2]

Use filesharing.

[sean14760]

File sharing the drive doesn't work. Any other ideas you might have would be greatly appreciated because I am at a complete loss on what to do next.

[vbox4me2]

Why not? clonezilla has samba onboard, I boot the ISO (it detects the virtual nic), tell it to use networking, I access my windows server share and tell it to get the image from there and of it goes. Acronis must have samba(netbios) as well.

[sean14760]

I don't understand why VB won't see two internal sata drives it sees the one with the .VDI on it but not the other. I have tried to modify the VB settings every way I can think of how can I get VB to see both drives?

[sean14760]

I know it must be an Acronis issue not VB but I had gotten it to work in the past and know it either doesn't work or I am not doing something right.

[vbox4me2]

WHich drives? if they are external to the VM they will never be seen.

Maybe an idea if you can install acronis into xp, build a new xp VM with GA and acronis, use VBox and xp features, attach a VDI as second disk for where a dump can be restored into.

[sean14760]

Acronis does see network shares and even though I can find the shares and choose the image I want to restore it still errors telling me that it only sees one drive in my system. I don't know why but it seems that even though I have two drives counting the one internal and the network drive it still seems to want two internal drives present, why is this?

[vbox4me2]

How is the VDI assigned? only ide or sata settings? try plain ide settings to see if it see's the VDI partition.

[mpack]

I had similar difficulties recently (I assume you are booting the VM off an ISO of the TrueImage CD?).

The way I got round it was :-

a) Change the VM settings to use IDE for the hard drives (don't worry, you can change this down the road a bit).

b) I still couldn't get Acronis to recognize the second hard drive containing the .tib files. So, I instead used the freeware tool "ImgBurn" to embed the .tib files inside an .ISO image. Now once the Acronis CD has finished booting up and is running in full mode I can switch to (mount) the other ISO, browse to it from Acronis to find the .tib files, and restore.

For the IDE to SATA part, see this thread Convert working IDE to working SATA?