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Conversion of logical volumes to basic ones may also prevent the system from booting up.
For these reasons, if the machine uses a custom boot loader, you might need to configure the loader
to point to the new devices and reactivate it. Configuring GRUB is normally not needed because
Acronis Backup does this automatically. Should the need arise, use the procedure described in "How
to reactivate GRUB and change its configuration" (p. 121).
For more considerations about physical to virtual machine conversion, see the "Backing up virtual
machines" document.
6.2.2 Setting up regular conversion to a virtual machine
When creating a backup plan (p. 33), you can set up regular conversion of a disk or volume backup to
a virtual machine. By setting up regular conversion, you obtain a copy of your server or workstation
on a virtual machine which can be readily powered on in case the original machine fails.
Restrictions
Conversion of a backup from the following locations is not available: CD, DVD, Blu-Ray Discs, and
Acronis Cloud Storage.
Conversion to a Citrix XenServer virtual machine is not available as a part of the backup plan. As
an alternative, use methods (b) and (c) as described in "Conversion methods" (p. 132).
Microsoft Virtual PC does not support virtual disks larger than 127 GB. During a conversion to a
Virtual PC machine, the size of every disk that exceeds 127 GB will be reduced to this value. If the
disk resize is not possible, the conversion will fail. If you need larger virtual disks in order to
connect them to a Hyper-V machine, use methods (b) and (c) as described in "Conversion
methods" (p. 132).
6.2.2.1 Conversion settings
This section provides information that helps you make the appropriate conversion settings.
The settings are specified in the Convert to virtual machine section of the Create backup plan page.
Convert to virtual machine
Convert from
If you are copying or moving backups to other locations (p. 70), select the location where the
backup will be taken from. Conversion locations which are not available (p. 134), such as
Acronis Cloud Storage, are not listed.
By default, conversion will be performed from the primary location.
When to convert
Depending on the selected backup scheme, specify whether to convert every full, every
incremental or every differential backup or convert the last created backup on schedule.
Specify the conversion schedule (p. 135) if required.
Target host... (p. 135)
Select the resulting virtual machine type and location. Available options depend on the agent
that will perform conversion. This may be the agent that performs the backup (by default) or
an agent installed on another machine. If the latter is the case, the archive must be stored in
a shared location such as a network folder or a managed vault, so that the other machine can
access the archive.
To specify another agent, click Change and select a machine where Agent for VMware, Agent
for Hyper-V, Agent for Windows, or Agent for Linux is installed.
