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7 Replies Last post: Oct 2, 2007 8:05 AM by oreeh
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"x.VMDK operation fail "There isn't enough space on disk" Please Help

Oct 2, 2007 7:15 AM

Click to view peter_1211's profile Novice peter_1211 7 posts since
Jun 6, 2007

Hello

While running one of my applications within one of my VM's I keep getting the following error message:

"Operation on file "c:\my machines\XP 10 gig.vmdk" failed "There is not enough space on the disk"

choose retry to attempt operaion again

choose abort to terminate this session

choose contnue to forward the error to the operating system

Any idea why this is happening, would greatly appreciate any help on this

Regards

Peter

Reply Re: "x.VMDK operation fail "There isn't enough space on disk" Please Help Oct 2, 2007 7:36 AM
Click to view oreeh's profile Guru oreeh 9,117 posts since
Nov 30, 2005 Moderator
Since you did not supply much details - please look at this document Read before posting questions regarding useful information for troubleshooting - I can only guess.

I assume you use a sparse disk and the host file system has not enough free space available to expand the sparse disk further.
To resolve this: get some more space in the hosts filesystem.

If you have enough space in the hosts file system then provide the requested information.
Reply Re: "x.VMDK operation fail "There isn't enough space on disk" Please Help Oct 2, 2007 7:39 AM
Click to view oreeh's profile Guru oreeh 9,117 posts since
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Please check your PMs
Reply Re: "x.VMDK operation fail "There isn't enough space on disk" Please Help Oct 2, 2007 7:45 AM
Click to view peter_1211's profile Novice peter_1211 7 posts since
Jun 6, 2007

Thanks for the reply Oreeh

My Host OS is XP professional,with 30 gig hard-drive and my VM is a 10 gig with XP professional, I have about 8 gigs free space on my host OS so it's not a space issue there's more than enough free space, so I'm not sure what t could be


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Reply Re: "x.VMDK operation fail "There isn't enough space on disk" Please Help Oct 2, 2007 7:50 AM
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Click to view oreeh's profile Guru oreeh 9,117 posts since
Nov 30, 2005 Moderator
What is the configured maximum size for the sparse disk?
How big is the VMDK actually?
What filesystem do you use on the host?
Reply Re: "x.VMDK operation fail "There isn't enough space on disk" Please Help Oct 2, 2007 7:51 AM
Click to view oreeh's profile Guru oreeh 9,117 posts since
Nov 30, 2005 Moderator
FYI: this thread has been moved to the VMware Workstation forum.

Oliver
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Reply Re: "x.VMDK operation fail "There isn't enough space on disk" Please Help Oct 2, 2007 7:57 AM
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Click to view peter_1211's profile Novice peter_1211 7 posts since
Jun 6, 2007

Hello Oree

The maximum size of the VM is st to 10 gigs

I imagine that by VMDK you mean the VMware virtual disk file if this is so the size is 4.1 gigs so far

I am using NTFS on the host

Hope this sheds some more light


Regards Peter


Reply Re: "x.VMDK operation fail "There isn't enough space on disk" Please Help Oct 2, 2007 8:05 AM
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Click to view oreeh's profile Guru oreeh 9,117 posts since
Nov 30, 2005 Moderator
Yes this sheds some light.
Some file systems are not able to handle files larger 4Gb.
NTFS can handle them - but according to your symptoms you don't have a NTFS file system.

If you are 100% sure that your file system can handle files that big add the following line to the VMX file
diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck= "false"
and try again.
Make a backup of the VM first!
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