Hi

I have a Red Hat Linux enterprise VM that I need to move from GSX 3.1 to ESX 2.5.1.

The VM currently has two virtual disks, one 8Gb and one 4GB file. I have tried using WINSCP (with the binary option), FTP (setting binary also) to transfer the files to my ESX server. The files go acorss ok. But when I try to import them using vmkfstools, I get the following error: "DiskLib_Open() failed. The file specified is not a virtual disk. (13)".

The command I ran was vmkfstools -i "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3-flat.vmdk" /vmfs/vmhba0:0:0:5/sxldvmm01.vmdk. I have also tried renaming the original file to get rid of the spaces etc. No luck.

I am copying the file to a VMFS partition (I know this is a no-no), as that is the only location with enough space on the server. I have used the same method with a number of other GSX files, and all have come across fine so far. The only difference here is the files are pre allocated and this one is Linux.

Any ideas anyone? I am sure it is something realy silly.

My hardware is a HP DL360G4 Dual CPU, 4GB RAM, 2x36 internal Drives, HP EVA 5000 SAN etc running ESX 2.5.1 Build 13053

Thanks
David