Folks, I need some help here...
I have renamed all 3 files (vmx, vmdk and vmsd which is empty btw), modified the vmx accordignly to reflect the new vmdk file name and get to most common error in VMware probably: "Cannot open file d:\vm\hpc1.vmdk or one of the snapshot it depends on. Reason: the file specified is not a virtual disk"
So for the record, there are no snapshots. I simply took a working VM, copied it to a new host and renamed the files...what am I doing wrong??
Here is the vmx and log file. Thanks in advance.
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "2000"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "HPC1.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "FALSE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "HPC1"
guestOS = "winnetstandard"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 5e b0 12 e9 0d dd-c4 8c 06 de 67 c9 ce 62"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 5e b0 12 e9 0d dd-c4 8c 06 de 67 c9 ce 62"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:5a:72:84"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ide1:0.clientDevice = "FALSE"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
ide1:1.present = "FALSE"
ide1:1.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:1.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide1:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
ide0:1.fileName = "auto detect"
ide0:1.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide0:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide0:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.clientDevice = "FALSE"
usb.autoConnect.device0 = ""
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
numvcpus = "1"
workingDir = "."
gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "TRUE"
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Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| \----
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| Opened paging file d:\vm\564d5eb0-12e9-0ddd-c48c-06de67c9ce62.vmem
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| Mapped mainmem as pageable
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat vm.cpuusage
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat vm.ram
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| MStat: Creating Stat vm.uptime
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 'd:\vm\HPC1.vmdk' persistent R\[(null)]
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR:ReadEncryptedDescriptorFromAIO: Encrypted descriptor above max size
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "d:\vm\HPC1.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "d:\vm\HPC1.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open 'd:\vm\HPC1.vmdk' with flags 0xa (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk "d:\vm\HPC1.vmdk": The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| DISK: Failed to open disk 'd:\vm\HPC1.vmdk' : The file specified is not a virtual disk (15) 3023.
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| \[msg.disk.noBackEnd] Cannot open the disk 'd:\vm\HPC1.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| \[msg.disk.configureDiskError] Reason: The file specified is not a virtual disk.----
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| POST(no connection): Cannot open the disk 'd:\vm\HPC1.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| Reason: The file specified is not a virtual disk.
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| AIOWIN32: asyncOps=0 syncOps=0 bufSize=0Kb delayed=0 fixed=0 sgOp=0 sgOn=1
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| VMX idle exit
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| VMX exit.
Jan 04 00:23:34: vmx| AIOMGR-S : stat o=2 r=8 w=0 i=0 br=8192 bw=0
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