cannot open cloned vm after moving parent vm.

[ITMan01]

Hi,

I failed to open a link-cloned-vm after moving its parent vm. When I tried to start the vm, error "Directory error" occurred. When I open the Settings of the vm, click the Hard Disk, error "cannot open parent vm" occurred.

please help!

thank you!

[continuum]

That is no error - that is the way it is expected to work.

Do NOT move a VM that is the base of a set of linked clones.

If you really must move the master-vmdks then you must fix the links manually.
To do that open the vmx-file of the linked clone and find all references to vmdks.
Once you have the list of vmdks that need to be changed - extract the embedded vmdk descriptor from the referenced vmdk - after that adjust the path and reinject the descriptor.

If you never done that before -read
VMDK-Handbook-Basics