Occasionally ESX VMs crash in such a way that the descriptor file of a vmdk gets lost.
If you ever need to recreate a descriptor from scratch but still have the *-flat.vmdk this little tool may come handy.
Tool asks for a flat-file - like used by ESX 3 and Workstation.
It ignores the CID and uses a bogus one.
Output is named "newdescriptor.vmdk" - rename as needed.
Doesn't work for disks smaller than 1 Gb at the moment
This is a very very simple autoit script - it just takes the size of the *-flat.vmdk as an argument and spits out disk-geometry values like used by VMware.
You can also try it against any dd-image - but this tool is so simple that you would need to rename the dd-image to something-flat.vmdk The other entries in the descriptor simply use some standard entries - edit as you see fit.
Feature requests welcome
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