I do, already, regularly shut down and archive copies of my VMware.
I do seek a "bare metal" archive of the contents of my VM. TIB from vmware-host VM share folder | Acronis Forum - (mklink /D C:\WriteBackupHere \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\TIBackupDestination) doesn't work (Acronis True Image doesn't even "see" the symbolic directory). Mapping a network drive in the guest VM doesn't do any good (I've read in other posts that mapped drives aren't supported by other Acronis products, so I'll bet Acronis True Image doesn't support them, either).Ĭreating a symbolic link in the guest VM to the UNC path - a trick I learned from an Acronis forum post at Accessing. I've even granted "Full Control" to "Everyone" on the directory in the host machine's OS. I've specified the userid and password that owns the folder on the VMware host, the userid and password under which the user account can read and write to it from within the VMware guest VM (same credentials, in my case). If I either attempt to browse to \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\ or explicitly enter the full UNC path to the target folder, an Acronis "Authentication Settings" dialog demands a user name and password for folder access. So it's been 2 years since ubunonymount attempted to solve the problem I still face, today (2019):Īcronis True Image, running in a Windows 7 VMware Workstation virtual machine, will not accept \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\TIBackupDestination as a "Back up to:" destination. So, either I need a USERNAME and a PASSWORD to login to my Shared Folders, or I need a new vmware-tools-driver for SMB, which works without error.
So, because the Error says: Access denied and it asks me for SMB-Login, it could correspond with the //vmware-host Driver or the SMB-connection-set-up of VMware.
Before Upgrade all worked fine with Back up my data. This Error just occurred after I upgraded VMware Workstation Pro from 12.5.4 to 12.5.5. nothing changed.Īnd by the way: Acronis TI 2014 is not supported anymore, so I couldn't ask there support (And new Acronis TI are sucks because of there gui). I tried to reinstall Acronis, I tried to reinstall System, I tried first to upgrade vmware-tools, after I tried to downgrade it (maybe new vm-tools have bug). When I go to backup-settings there's allways occurring a login-prompt where you have to type in your username and password for //vmware-host SMB-File-Share. (0x40014) filename = "\\?\UNC\vmware-host\Shared Folders\backup-source" "Error occurred: Access to the file or folder is denied. Now, if I click on "Back up now" it says: (guest-OS is Windows 7 Enterprise and host-OS is Windows 10 Enterprise). My host-device (internal hdd) is embeded into guest System using "vmware Shared Folders". I try to make a Backup from a host-device to a guest-device using Acronis TI 2014. This storage folder is usually WINDOWS/inf.Acronis True 2014 Image needs USERNAME and PASSWORD from \\vmware-host (Shared Folders). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. The Windows default driver storage folder is determined in the registry value DevicePath, which can be found in the registry key Nevertheless, performing Universal Restore is critical so the system uses the correct drivers. So, you may not necessarily have to specify the external path to the drivers.
There is a great chance that Universal Restore finds all necessary drivers in the Windows 7 driver folder. Windows 7 includes more drivers than the older Windows operating systems. If you download the drivers in the *.exe, *.cab or *.zip format, extract them using a third-party application (e.g. The driver files should have the *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions. Use the CD or DVD supplied by the hardware vendor or download the drivers from the vendor’s Web site. These drivers are critical to start the operating system. video and sound card drivers, plug and play drivers) are not installed by Acronis Universal Restore, as they can be installed in Windows after the successful migration.īefore applying Universal Restore to a Windows operating system, make sure that you have the drivers for the new HDD controller and the chipset. If there are proper NIC drivers present in the folder with the drivers, Acronis Universal Restore will copy them into the restored system and will schedule their installation on Windows boot-up. hard drive or RAID controller drivers) into the system during the recovery process, so that the operating system can boot from this boot device.
Acronis Universal Restore is a tool that allows changing Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL.dll) and install mass storage boot device drivers into the system.