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jlachapelle
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‎07-09-2008 11:40 AM

Unable to open file"xxx\wubdiws.vmdk : one of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or by a snapshot.

Unable to open file"xxx\wubdiws.vmdk : one of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or by a snapshot.

This is the error message I have when I try to open my virtual machine, I try going back to previous snapshot, it work when it's a snapshot from a powered-on state, but not if the snapshot was shutdown. Also If I revert to a snapshot that was powered-on I can't restart it after a shutdown. The only was I can access my virtual machine is by reverting to a snapshot, so right now I'm in trouble.

I reboot the host, upgraded to the last version, check for .lck folder without succes, I'm out of idea to fix this problem right now.

Any idea?

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd
vmware.log
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jlachapelle
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‎07-09-2008 12:15 PM

Here's the file list

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jlachapelle
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‎07-09-2008 12:16 PM

here's the dir list

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VijayGande
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‎07-06-2010 09:23 AM

I had similar issue a while ago and able to resolve it by creating new .vmx file, which intern created bunch of associated files and able to boot the VM.

Check out the url: http://vkgande.blogspot.com/2010/07/vmware-kb-validating-vmx-settings-of.html

Regards,

Vijay Gande, MCSD, MCTS

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