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TrueImageCMD: how to specify vm_type "xenserver"?

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by cptstefan

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Hi everybody

I would like to convert a True Image file of a Windows 2003 server (.tib) into a .vhd file and import it into XenServer afterwards (using XenConvert). It is not a problem at all if I use the True Image GUI, but I would like to create a script which does it automatically. This is the command I would like to use:

trueimagecmd /convert /filename:C:\image.tib /target_filename:C:\convimage.vhd /vm_type:??? /harddisk:1

My problem is that I do not know how to specify the vm_type XenServer. According to the manual, the CLI only offers these parameters:
/vm_type:[vmware|esx|microsoft|parallels].

I know that there MUST be a way because if you convert the image with the GUI, the VM type XenServer is available!

I have also posted this question here http://forum.acronis.com/forum/8716, but I did not get a single reply.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you
Stefan

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by sirbeer

Have you tired Microsoft

/vm_type:Microsoft

From Manual:
Specifies the path to and name of the virtual disk file to be created. The file extension corresponds to the type of virtual machine to which the virtual disk will be added:

? MS virtual machine and Citrix XenServer - .vhd

by sirbeer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format)

The format is used for Microsoft Virtual PC and was also adopted by XenSource for what is now the Citrix XenServer hypervisor. The VHD format is used by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 which includes a hypervisor-based virtualization technology called Hyper-V.

by cptstefan

Hi Sirbeer

Thanks for your help, it worked.

Regards
Stefan

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