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ashishkmahanta
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You may not power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine

Dear Gurus,

I am getting the same error, while trying to ON the power inside VMware.

My .vmx is as below -

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "4"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

memsize = "1024"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "RAC1.vmdk"

scsi0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/hdc"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"

Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

displayName = "RAC1"

guestOS = "rhel4"

priority.grabbed = "normal"

priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

powerType.powerOff = "hard"

powerType.powerOn = "hard"

powerType.suspend = "hard"

powerType.reset = "hard"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

disk.locking = "FALSE"

diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0"

diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0"

diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0"

diskLib.dataCachePageSize = "4096"

diskLib.maxUnsyncedWrites = "0"

scsi1.present = "TRUE"

scsil.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

sccil.sharedBus = "VIRTUAL"

scsi1:1.present = "TRUE"

scsi1:1.fileName = "/u02/VM/shared/ocr.vmdk"

scsi1:1.mode = "independent-persistent"

scsil:1.deviceType = "plainDisk"

scsil:1.redo = ""

scsi1:2.present = "TRUE"

scsi1:2.fileName = "/u02/VM/shared/votingdisk.vmdk"

scsi1:2.mode = "independent-persistent"

scsil:2.deviceType = "plainDisk"

scsil:2.redo = ""

scsi1:3.present = "TRUE"

scsi1:3.fileName = "/u02/VM/shared/asm1.vmdk"

scsi1:3.mode = "independent-persistent"

scsil:3.deviceType = "plainDisk"

scsil:3.redo = ""

scsi1:4.present = "TRUE"

scsi1:4.fileName = "/u02/VM/shared/asm2.vmdk"

scsi1:4.mode = "independent-persistent"

scsil:4.deviceType = "plainDisk"

scsil:4.redo = ""

scsi1:5.present = "TRUE"

scsi1:5.fileName = "/u02/VM/shared/asm3.vmdk"

scsi1:5.mode = "independent-persistent"

scsil:5.deviceType = "plainDisk"

scsil:5.redo = ""

scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"

Kindly suggest on the same

Regards,

Ashish

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Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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ashishkmahanta
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Waiting for the kind reply...

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