Stand alone Macrium restore need to load drivers - any ideas

Hi folks

I have some Windows Virtual machines running under QEMU/KVM - but want to take images -- no problem with running Macriium from WITHIN the windows virtual machines, but on restore it will fail as it needs the win-virtio drivers -.

I have the drivers so no probs there but is there a way of loading these windows drivers when creating the stand alone boot media

If the drivers aren't there in the boot up winpe / winre module then Macrium doesn't recognize the Virtual disk to restore the image to.

Screenshot of my Windows Virtual Machine devices shown later in this post.

the drivers can be loaded via an ISO image no prob presumably when creating the stand alone boot media

(There's one unknown hardware device in my list here but it's OK - some tpm security module or whatever -- don't need or use it in a VM) - the other drivers I need are marked).

I'm sure there is a way of doing this -- I want to use Macrium to backup the VM's --I don't need the entire disk image via using DD in Linux. To repeat --no problem in CREATING the image via macrium -- it's RESTORE from stand alone boot media.

Problem doesn't arise in VMWare but it's the basically Red Hat paravirtualised i/o drivers that obviously can't be distributed automatically with Macrium.




BTW these drivers absolutely make these VM's fly --- don't forget the video qxl driver andthe ethernet virtio drivers too so you've got host speed for network between guest and host and FULL LAN speed from VM's to rest of LAN.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

...is there a way of loading these windows drivers when creating the stand alone boot media

Not something I've needed to try, but it is covered in the Knowledgebase.

Adding device drivers to Windows PE - KnowledgeBase v7.2 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

Bree said:

Not something I've needed to try, but it is covered in the Knowledgebase.

Adding device drivers to Windows PE - KnowledgeBase v7.2 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

@Bree

thanks

I'll try that -- since these are Windows drivers they should load -- I don't need the network one currently as I'll test this on a LOCAL machine. If the disk can be recognized then that's all required as the windows image will have everything else in it at VM boot after restore.

Give me something to do while waiting for a nice Late breakfast --this time of the year here it's only just about getting a bit light now around 11.00 AM !! !!!!!

Cheers

and Happy (and Safe) new year
jimbo

Hi there

@Bree

problem solved and it works





Thanks !!!!

Marking as Solved


Cheers

jimbo

Happy new year!