Fail to power on server

[rupeshj]

Good day all.

I'm getting an error when trying to start up one of my VM..

"Could not power on VM: No swap file. Fail to power on VM"

[AndreTheGiant]

It seems the you cannot create the VM swap file.

Check if you have enought space in your datastore.

Andre

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[rupeshj]

Hi Andre

I had a look regarding disk space an I have 51.8 GB free.

[wila · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Please attach the vmware.log -which is found in the same folder as your virtual machine.- to your reply.

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[rupeshj]

• KB Article: 1003742

• Updated: Aug 25, 2009

I used the above KB Article to resolve the problem is was having.

[izthemann92]

where did you find  the article for it ?

[scott28tt]

@izthemann92 

This would be the numbered KB article: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003742

Bear in mind this is a thread from 2009 so your issue may not be the same, so that solution may not work for you.