Error powering on vm: A file was not found

[rjohn06]

I ran into this error after trying to rename a virtual disk using vmkfstools. After registering a vm and trying to power it on, I get the error "A file was not found". In the datastore browser of the Virtual Infrastructure client, the disk file is no longer recognized as a virtual disk and the .vmdk file no longer points to the flat file. Is there any way to recover from this?

[DSTAVERT]

You can view the .vmdk file since it is just text. See where it points. Did you recreate the VM. Make sure the vmx file is correct as well.

[NeilGingell]

You could try creating a new VM and attaching the existing disks - if this works it would suggest an issue with you vmx file, if this doesn't work then it would suggest the vmdk text file contains an error in which case a simple grep command may help you find the fault...

grep "Old VMDK file name" vmdkname.vmdk