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Mount 2TB guest with VDDK 6.0
I'm using VDDK 6.0 build 3566099 to mount a 2TB Win 7 x64 guest on the U: drive of my test system (also a Win 7 x64 system).
In total I have 20 guests ranging from Win Vista x86-Win Svr 2016 x64 - all of which can successfully mount except for this one guest which is by far the largest.
I am using nbd transport to mount the image with open flags VIXDISKLIB_FLAG_OPEN_READ_ONLY.
I am able to execute VixDiskLib_GetInfo() on the image successfully, just unable to mount it. From logging it does appear to be failing at the creation of the local child disk .vmdk. VixDisk_Lib_CreateChild says one of the parameters is incorrect.
I've seen other postings regarding certain limits with VMWARE and the 2TB ceiling but not specifically with VDDK.
Is there possibly a workaround for this? I don't want to create a disk, nor write to it - just mount RO.
Here is the output of my mount app:
childDiskName: C:\7-childDisk-1.vmdk
Calling VixMntapi_Init()...
INFO: `anonymous-namespace'::VixMntapiReadTmpDirPath: Using tempDirectory C:\VDDK\tmp.
INFO: Mntapi_Init Asked - 2.2 Served - 2.2 was successful,TempDirectory: C:\VDDK\tmp.Calling VixDiskLib_Connect()...
INFO: VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Connect: Establish connection.
INFO: VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_OpenEx: Open a disk.
INFO: VixDiskLibVim: VixDiskLibVim_GetNfcTicket: Get NFC ticket for [datastore2] Win 7 x64_1/Win 7 x64_1.vmdk.
INFO: VixDiskLibVim: Request RandomAccessRO diskKey = 2000, readOnly = 1, openSnapshot = 0.
INFO: VixDiskLibVim: VixDiskLibVim_FreeNfcTicket: Free NFC ticket.
INFO: NBD_ClientOpen: attempting to create connection to ha-nfc://[datastore2] Win 7 x64_1/Win 7 x64_1.vmdk@192.168.4.201:902
INFO: Started up WSA
INFO: Opening file [datastore2] Win 7 x64_1/Win 7 x64_1.vmdk (ha-nfc://[datastore2] Win 7 x64_1/Win 7 x64_1.vmdk@192.168.4.201:902)
INFO: DISKLIB-LINK : Opened 'ha-nfc://[datastore2] Win 7 x64_1/Win 7 x64_1.vmdk@192.168.4.201:902' (0x1e): custom, 4294967296 sectors / 2 TB.
INFO: DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "ha-nfc://[datastore2] Win 7 x64_1/Win 7 x64_1.vmdk@192.168.4.201:902" (flags 0x1e, type custom).
INFO: VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_GetTransportMode: Retrieve transport mode.
Selected transport method: nbd
childDisks[0].c_str() C:\7-childDisk-1.vmdk
INFO: VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_CreateChild: Create a child disk.
INFO: DISKLIB-LIB_CREATE : CREATE CHILD: "C:\7-childDisk-1.vmdk" -- monolithicSparse grainSize=128 policy=''
INFO: DISKLIB-LIB_CREATE : CREATE-CHILD: Creating disk backed by 'default'
INFO: DISKLIB-LIB_CREATE : Failed to create link: One of the parameters supplied is invalid (1)
INFO: DISKLIB-LIB_CREATE : DiskLib_CreateChild: failed to create child disk: One of the parameters supplied is invalid (1).
INFO: VixDiskLib: Detected DiskLib error 1 (One of the parameters supplied is invalid).
INFO: VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_CreateChild: Unable to create child disk. Error 16000 (One of the parameters supplied is invalid) (DiskLib error 1: One of the parameters supplied is invalid) at 4408.
VixDiskLib_CreateChild() returned: 16000 (Disk Invalid): childDisks[0].c_str(): C:\7-childDisk-1.vmdk