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3 Replies Last post: Jan 14, 2009 6:47 AM by continuum  

the parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created (Help!!) posted: Oct 11, 2007 2:58 PM

Click to view WesTopping's profile Novice 20 posts since
Jul 1, 2005

I resized the parent disk without realizing that the VM had a snapshot. Now I am getting this error when I try to power on the VM. The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created. This is on ESX 3.0.2 any ideas on how I could recover from this?

Wes

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Oct 23, 2006
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Click to view jinweijie's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jan 13, 2009

hi,

i encounted the same problem and i solved it this way:

use text editor to open the .vmdk file, for example Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmdk

remove the disks added recently, for example,:


RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s001.vmdk"
RW 2099200 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s002.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s003.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s004.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s005.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s006.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s007.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s008.vmdk"
RW 12288 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s009.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s010.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s011.vmdk"
RW 2101248 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s012.vmdk"

remove


RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s010.vmdk"
RW 4192256 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s011.vmdk"
RW 2101248 SPARSE "Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s012.vmdk"

and start you vm again :) hope it helps

Click to view continuum's profile Guru 12,624 posts since
Dec 18, 2003
and start you vm again :) hope it helps

NO - that does NOT help - on the contrary - your tip will surely mess up the complete VM and it does not apply to ESX at all.

At anybody reading the last post: ignore it

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