I am using Acronis True Image 2011 to create image files of several windows machines. True Image 2011 has the optional "Universal Restore" feature, which allows you restore a TIB file to a dissimilar machine: http://kb.acronis.com/content/13671 In order to use this feature, you need to supply the driver files of the destination machine. You generally just need the chipset DLLs and perhaps the SCSI DLLs if present -- it's not necessary to supply the rest of the drivers (such as video, sound, etc) for the dissimilar destination machine to successfully boot. I would like to use this tool to restore a TIB file to a Parallels VM. This process has significant advantages over using the Parallels transporter. I can restore from any TIB file I've got sitting around, which is a big deal if the original machine is refusing to boot or if the HD has died. Also, the transporter will often require removing a lot of software before it will work, such as antivirus software. Finally the transporter requires that I install software on the source machine. It's a lot easier to simply boot True Image from a flash drive, create the TIB, and then use universal restore to restore that TIB to a VM. I need the necessary Parallels DLL files so that I can use universal restore. I suspect all I need will be the chipset drivers and the hard disk drivers. I've looked in the c:\program files\parallels\parallels tools\drivers folder on an existing Parallels VM, and it looks like I've found a parallels SCSI driver. However I can't find a chipset driver. Can someone suggest where I might look for the other drivers? Note that I've successfully used Acronis universal restore to go from a TIB file of an actual PC to a bootable VMware image. VMware has a similar drivers folder, and that folder contained all the necessary DLL files for the Acronis universal restore to do its thing. It was a lot easier, and faster, than using the analagous "VMware transporter" John Feinberg New York, NY
