Right now I have a Server 2003 machine running Virtual Server 2005. I imaged an old server (the same model as the new server with better drive spacing) with ghost 8 and now I need to restore that image to the Virtual machine I created in virtual server. I can boot into ghost and get it working, and I can even do a network image from a remote machine. The problem is I cant get it to transfer in a time less then 8 days (which it will time out any way). I was wondering if there is a way to make ghost see the images that are on the same physical computer as the virtual machine. Such as when you boot ghost you see your net use mapped drives, or A:. Is there are way for me to see drive X: (that is actually on the physical machine) inside of ghost to pull the image from? Thanks a lot, any help is appreciated.

lanwagon

So....you have a *Virtual machine*, mounted inside a *virtual server* that is running under Win Server 2003!  Wow, that's getting buried pretty deep!

Unfortunately, not too many folks here have much experience with *virtual machines* (including me!).

Are you creating a *virtual DOS machine* and running the DOS version of Ghost 8 when you say:

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You should be able to copy the Ghost image files to a location on the same physical machine, and the *virtual machine* should be supporting accessing the other HDD's on that physical system--I don't know exactly how that works--perhaps like networking of the various HDD's similar to finding other HDD's on systems on a physical network--is that the problem you are having!?

You may have to use Ghost32.exe on the source *virtual machine* to act as *master* to deliver the Ghost image to the destination *virtual machine* running Ghost as the *slave* to receive the Ghost image!?  

Or, perhaps you need to use Ghost Console on the source *virtual machine* to push the image to the destination *virtual machine*!?

Also, you might have better luck with Symantec's corporate Ghost forum here:  Symantec Ghost Solution Suite (GSS) support forum

Any help?

Heh, you got my attention. First thing I'll do is have a chat with some of our QA folks who have more experience with Virtual Server than I do (I personally use VMWare Workstation) and see what ideas they have and what performance they get from Ghost under Virtual Server.

That performance does seem excruciatingly poor; just to check, since you have 8.0 presumably you're doing a GhostCast rather than a peer-to-peer transfer? Virtual Server emulates something in the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 line for virtual network hardware, from memory.

I'll get back to you once I know more.