Have a W2K host running W2K guest with MS SQL 2000. At random times, about 2 to 50 hours between occurances, the guest 'hangs'. With remote console we connect and there is a pop up with the following message, a response of retry 'frees' the guest, even if is has been many hours. The events are logged in the host application log, but no events in the guest. I have looked everywhere without success for some thing that would lock the file. It is not even the same file, sometimes it is the first segment, sometimes another drive altogether. Tech Support has been no help. Has any one seen this before and was a solution found?
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Event Type: Information
Event Source: VMware GSX Server
Event Category: Virtual machines
Event ID: 1101
Date: 2/9/2004
Time: 10:54:53 PM
User: N/A
Computer: xxxxxxx
Description:
Virtual machine received question: x:\vmware\vms\xxxxxxxx\windows 2000 server.vmx
Operation on file Windows 2000 Server-02.vmdk failed (write: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file).
Pressing Retry will attempt the operation again.
Pressing Abort will terminate this session.
\[Retry, Abort]
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Event Type: Information
Event Source: VMware GSX Server
Event Category: Virtual machines
Event ID: 1102
Date: 2/10/2004
Time: 8:05:33 AM
User: N/A
Computer: xxxxxxxx
Description:
Virtual machine received answer "Retry": e:\vmware\vms\xxxxxxxx\windows 2000 server.vmx
Operation on file Windows 2000 Server-02.vmdk failed (write: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file).
Pressing Retry will attempt the operation again.
Pressing Abort will terminate this session.