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Muthuk
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Creating Child disk for running VMware Workstation

Hi,

Is it possible to create child disk for a running VM Workstation. I am getting error like "file is already in use" while creating it.

Thanks,

Muthu

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It is not possible to manipulate disks of a live VM (the disks are locked by the running VM). It sounds like you want to create a snapshot (which creates a child disk) - you can do this using VIX toolkit.

Please see snapshot.c at http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api

-Sudarsan

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