Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Oct 5 11:27:02 CDT 2009
Hi John: Thanks for the info. I have a DriveImageXML ISO and the process of restoring it to the new VPC (VirtualBox) drive is not an issue. The only problem is that the restore features on DIX looks at the virtual drive it is about to restore to and quits saying drive is not large enough. Of course the virtual drive is variable so as data is entered it will just keep the drive expanding until the maximum of the real drive is reached. Now I have to figure out what to do. You can not re-set the size or expansion method of the virtual drive when once created. The last thing I would want is a fixed size drive... There may be a method of simply generating a file(s) that forces the expansion of the virtual drive up to 60GB... gross in concept but for now I can not think of a better method... Any thoughts? Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:56 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive Hi Jim, A few months ago someone here pointed out to me that Acronis Backup & Recovery can turn a disk image into a VM. HTH John B. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 3:25 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive Last night I installed a new ASUS M4A78 Plus mother (2600 MHz), in my wife's old computer. The motherboard was $100, $30 x 2GB for memory and CPU. Quad-core AMD... the whole arrangement came to about $230 with taxes... the only additional expense was having to get an optical DVD drive, $40. The new board comes with a 1 GB NIC, two video card slots, eSATA/SATA connection, 5 on the board and two off the back (all BIOS configurable), in addition it come with 12 USB ports (auto-sensing; from legacy to high speed 2.0), sound and for backward compatibility it comes with COM and LPT port connectors as well as IDE slots. The board also supports Firewire but I have not figured out how to configure it as of yet. She seems happy but for how long? Now the question. I hope to just install a virtual PC (VirtualBox?) and simple install the old XP boot drive in/on the virtual. The old drive was 60GB and the new one is 500GB. I remember there was some talk, on the Lists about just backing up a drive on to a VPC but I have had no first hand experience. Any suggestions? Best methods? Best software? Gotcas? Etc.. MTIA Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com