Disk Filenames

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Hi all

Working on Workstation 5.5 on a WinXP PC. I have a VM running without problems with folder contents as below. I somehow ended up with the 000001 vmdk file even though there are no snapshots. From little that I know this is not normal and I am always very careful when deleting snapshots to do so from the Snapshot Manager interface. In any case, I want to full clone this machine. The process ran successfully but when I start the clone it complains that it cannot find the 000001 vmdk file. The cloning process produced the second listing below. What can I do?

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17/09/2008 11:20 §£ 8.664 nvram

17/09/2008 11:18 §£ 17.346 vmware-0.log

17/09/2008 11:17 §£ 19.722 vmware-1.log

17/09/2008 10:48 §£ 34.642 vmware-2.log

17/09/2008 11:20 §£ 23.317 vmware.log

19/09/2008 10:32 §£ 12.240.879.616 W2K3-RF-TT17-000001.vmdk

17/09/2008 10:14 §£ 21.474.836.480 W2K3-RF-TT17-flat.vmdk

19/09/2008 09:36 §£ 356 W2K3-RF-TT17.vmdk

17/09/2008 10:11 §£ 471 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd

17/09/2008 11:18 §£ 2.372 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx ..

19/09/2008 10:51 §£ 21.474.836.480 W2K3-RF-flat.vmdk

19/09/2008 11:03 §£ 351 W2K3-RF.vmdk

19/09/2008 10:32 §£ 8.664 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.nvram

19/09/2008 10:32 §£ 0 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd

19/09/2008 11:04 §£ 2.382 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx

[AA]

Seems that the 2 lists are not properly displayed! Sorry. Here they are again:

List 1

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19/09/2008 11:54 §£

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19/09/2008 11:54 §£

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17/09/2008 11:20 §£ 8.664 nvram
17/09/2008 11:18 §£ 17.346 vmware-0.log
17/09/2008 11:17 §£ 19.722 vmware-1.log
17/09/2008 10:48 §£ 34.642 vmware-2.log
17/09/2008 11:20 §£ 23.317 vmware.log
19/09/2008 10:32 §£ 12.240.879.616 W2K3-RF-TT17-000001.vmdk
17/09/2008 10:14 §£ 21.474.836.480 W2K3-RF-TT17-flat.vmdk
19/09/2008 09:36 §£ 356 W2K3-RF-TT17.vmdk
17/09/2008 10:11 §£ 471 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd
17/09/2008 11:18 §£ 2.372 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx

List 2
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19/09/2008 11:58 §£

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19/09/2008 11:58 §£

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19/09/2008 10:51 §£ 21.474.836.480 W2K3-RF-flat.vmdk

19/09/2008 11:03 §£ 351 W2K3-RF.vmdk

19/09/2008 10:32 §£ 8.664 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.nvram

19/09/2008 10:32 §£ 0 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd

19/09/2008 11:04 §£ 2.382 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx

[guyrleech]

What's in the file "W2K3-RF-TT17.vmdk"? You should be able to open it with a text editor such as Wordpad and it will show you what extents (the big vmdk files) it is using. Similarly, what .vmdk files are referenced in the original .vmx file?

[continuum]

Your list 1 shows a zero-size vmsd - that means your snapshot-state was unclear before you created the clone. I guess your VM after the clone misses a lot of data ?

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description of vmx-parameters:

VMware-liveCD: