My VMS does not initiate more in VMWARE ESXi 4.1 after turning off and turning on them.

[bruno300]

Hi,

I have a very serious problem with VMWARE. I have four VMs installed on a Dell PowerEdge R710 server. These VMs have the Red Hat 5 64 bits or CentOS , both were running perfectly. So I took a shutdown in three of the four VMs and when I was trying to start them again they did not initiate.

Vmdk and vmx files are intact, nothing has changed. I just shutdown on these VMS and then I start again. Before that they were all working perfectly, what can be happening?

Events tab of vSphere Client displays the following messages:

Virtual machine on vmwareesx04 is powered on:

Message fromvmwareesx04: No bootable

device was detected.  A bootable device might be a CD, floppy,

hard disk, or network device, as when booting with PXE. To

install an operating system, insert a bootable CD or floppy and

restart the virtual machine.

I am also sending one print screen of the console screen of the VMS I'm trying to start

[a_p_]

Try to boot the VM's using a Live Linux CD (e.g. gparted) to check whether the partitions are intact.

Do you see any errors/warnings in the VM's vmware.log files (located in the VM's folders)?

André

[bruno300]

Bellow the vmware.log from one of VMs.

At least I have not found any errors in this log

Message was edited by: a.p. - Moved pasted log file to an attachment.

[bruno300]

Another test I did was copy all the files from one of these VMs to another location and then tried to start on VMware Workstation, but the same error occurred.

[a_p_]

According to the log file your virtual disks are set to "independent-nonpersistent" which means all changes are discarded after shutting down the VM. Unless you have an up to date backup, I'm afraid you may have to reinstall everything!

André

[bruno300]

Goodness!
Thank you, actually I did not created these VMS. The person who created must not have noticed it