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eddiemhishi
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My VM is not powering on its showing this error

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Soha_Fouad
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Hi,

This is an issue with the ctk (tracker) files …you need to disable it by following the below steps

To disable CBT:

  1. Power off the virtual machine.
  2. Right-click the virtual machine and click Edit Settings.
  3. Click the Options tab.
  4. Click General under the Advanced section and then click Configuration Parameters. The Configuration Parameters dialog opens.
  5. Disable CBT for the virtual machine by setting the ctkEnabled value to false.
  6. Disable CBT for the individual virtual disks attached to the virtual machine by setting the scsix:x.ctkEnabled value for each attached virtual disk to false.
  7. Then shh the host and go to the directory of the VM
  8. Then run the command to list all the vmdks #ls | grep vmdk
  9. Then vi xxx.vmdk (the descriptor )and put a # before the CTK entry then save it
  10. Then move the ctk files that are in the VM directory to a temp folder
  11. Then Power on the virtual machine.

As per the below KB:

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1020128

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2139574?lang=en_US

Best Regards

Soha Fouad

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