This is an issue with the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
This article applies to:
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows (Standalone)
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux (Standalone)
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Small Business Server Edition
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation (Standalone)
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Virtual Edition
Symptoms
- You create a backup of a system partition of a virtual Windows machine in KVM environment;
- Then you restore the backup to the virtual machine in KVM environment with the Active Restore option of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10;
- When asked to reboot the machine during the restore, you commit the reboot;
- After the reboot, Active Restore fails with the following error message:
Acronis Bootable Agent has failed to open backup archive
Cause
This is a KVM Virtual Machine Manager issue.
Solution
- As a workaround, do not use the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) to launch the guest virtual machine - instead, call the virtual machine from the command line using QEMU:
- To run the virtual machine with default settings, specify a path to the virtual machine image hard disk image with the following command:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm –hda [image file] –hdb[image file] –hdc[image file]
- To run the virtual machine with custom parameters, refer to QEMU user guide for the list of commands and their syntax.
- To run the virtual machine with default settings, specify a path to the virtual machine image hard disk image with the following command:
- Use the third-party VNC client to display the guest virtual machine.
More information
See also:
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Booting from Acronis PXE Server in KVM\RHEV Environment Fails
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Acronis Bootable Media Does Not Detect Network in RHEV Environment
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Hangs in RHEV Environment
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Call on F11 Fails in KVM Environment