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BenOoijevaar
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Copy virtual machine, snapshots lost

Hello,

I copied a virtual machine from ESX server 1 to ESX server 2. On ESX server 1 this virtual machine had a couple snapshots. Now on ESX server 2 these snapshots are no longer visible in the snapshot manager. When i check on the command line i can see all the snapshot delta files, so the snapshots are still there. When i check with ll-tr, the vmdk in use is the highest snapshot number.

The steps i took:

- shutdown virtual machine on server 1

- copy machine to server 2 with scp

- changed folder name

- removed MAC addres from vmx file

- changed the parentFileNameHint in one vmdk (else it could not find the flat-vmdk file and it would not start)

- started the virtual machine

Now i checked the snapshot manager, and it was empty. Also vmware-cmd hassnapshot tells me: "hassnapshot() = ". So nothing.

I'm running ESX 3.0.2 61618 (upgrade 3.5 planned)

Can anyone help me out?

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