I have a VM which is running under VM Server 2.0 on a W2003 machine perfectly for months.
Now, I have a new machine running OpenSuse11, also with VM Server 2.
I copied all the files in the original Windows-machine directory to the linux-machine and added this machine to the inventory saying that this machines wasn't new, but copied.
The final try to start ended with an error message, saying thta the virtual harddisk is not valid.
Here comes the text from vmware.log:
Dec 12 18:55:44.380: vmx| DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk' independent-persistent R[]
Dec 12 18:55:44.426: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened : "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk" (0x2a)
Dec 12 18:55:44.426: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk' (0x2a): monolithicSparse, 52428800 sectors / 25 GB.
Dec 12 18:55:44.426: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
Dec 12 18:55:44.426: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN :"/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk": Failed to open parent "/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk": The system cannot find the file specified.
Dec 12 18:55:44.426: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk" : failed to open (The parent of this virtual disk could not be opened).
Dec 12 18:55:44.468: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk' with flags 0x2a (The parent of this virtual disk could not be opened).
Dec 12 18:55:44.515: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened : "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk" (0x28)
Dec 12 18:55:44.515: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk' (0x28): monolithicSparse, 52428800 sectors / 25 GB.
Dec 12 18:55:44.515: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk" (flags 0x28).
Dec 12 18:55:44.515: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
Dec 12 18:55:44.515: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk" : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
Dec 12 18:55:44.515: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open 'Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk' with flags 0x2a (The system cannot find the file specified).
Dec 12 18:55:44.515: vmx| DISK: Cannot open disk 'Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk' : The system cannot find the file specified.
Dec 12 18:55:44.558: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Dec 12 18:55:44.558: vmx| http://msg.disk.fileNotFound VMware Server cannot find the virtual disk "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk". Please verify the path is valid and try again.
Dec 12 18:55:44.558: vmx| http://msg.disk.noBackEnd Cannot open the disk '/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Dec 12 18:55:44.558: vmx| http://msg.disk.configureDiskError Reason: The system cannot find the file specified.----
Dec 12 18:55:44.576: vmx| Module DiskEarly power on failed.
Dec 12 18:55:44.576: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0
Dec 12 18:55:44.576: vmx| WORKER: asyncOps=0 maxActiveOps=0 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0
Dec 12 18:55:44.582: vmx| VMMon_UnlockPage: failed addr = 7F82F001A000, return = -1, errno = 22
Dec 12 18:55:44.583: vmx| Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff
Dec 12 18:55:44.654: vmx| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Dec 12 18:55:44.654: vmx| VMX idle exit
Dec 12 18:55:44.655: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections
Dec 12 18:55:44.655: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads
Dec 12 18:55:44.655: vmx| VMX exit (0).
Dec 12 18:55:44.655: vmx| AIOMGR-S : stat o=2 r=6 w=0 i=0 br=25600 bw=0
Some messages say that the files cannot be found, but they are there on the Linux-machine.
Because I asked for this behaviour aonce before, i checked the properties for the whole directory, which is 'Can modify & view' for all files, ownwer is root.
Here is the message text from the startip command:
VMware Server cannot find the virtual disk "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk". Please verify the path is valid and try again.
Cannot open the disk '/NAS_alt/VMWare/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: The system cannot find the file specified.
What can I do ?
Greetings from cold Germany, Nico