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Hello.
i have the same issue.
here are some of the test i have done.
1. Stopped the VM
2. Unregister the VM
3. navigated to the VM directory
4. edited the vmx file.
5. changed manually the "sched.swap.derivedName = " to the desired location. (tried with and without the name of the file)
6. saved the file
7. validated the file had been modify with the date and time.
8. re-registered the VM
9. started the VM
10. validate the log files of the VM.
[root@host:/vmfs/volumes/6043aa3f-39c5edae-9adc-d485645165c4/DM_WinPro_Station_1] cat vmware.log | grep sched.swap.derivedName
2021-03-17T20:56:00.181Z| vmx| I125: DICT sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/hostnvme1/DM_WinPro_Station_1/" < ------ that is the configuration....
2021-03-17T20:56:00.302Z| vmx| A100: ConfigDB: Setting sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/6043aa3f-39c5edae-9adc-d485645165c4/DM_WinPro_Station_1/DM_WinPro_Station_1-3425 <----- that is what it will use.
11. re-edited the VMX files after stoping the VM...
RESULT: sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/6043aa3f-39c5edae-9adc-d485645165c4/DM_WinPro_Station_1/DM_WinPro_Station_1-3425b2b7.vswp"
the VMX file was re-writen by the host....
after i did my change : -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3320 Mar 17 20:55 DM_WinPro_Station_1.vmx
after i restarted the VM : -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3379 Mar 17 20:57 DM_WinPro_Station_1.vmx
that mean that the host continuously re-write it.... with the old value.
i have not downloaded the VMX file locally to my station and deleted the old one.
should that be done ? and why ???? if we are root and that we change the VMX file and save it.. that should be enough..
OR...
there are permissions that needs to be set that i dont know of...
anyone has an idea.... this is kind of stupidly critical..
thanks in advance.