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Re: Cannot take ownership of two machines after power failure

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎05-14-2017 08:19 PM
‎05-14-2017 08:19 PM
Another big THANK YOU ! And thank google for finding this thread and putting it up top.

Re: WS9 merging rawdisk snapsots

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎03-11-2013 07:18 PM
‎03-11-2013 07:18 PM
I copied the drive data to a new drive from within the VM, everything was good. After a week and several boots, it decided there was a missing file and would not start the VM.  Resolved this b... See more...
I copied the drive data to a new drive from within the VM, everything was good. After a week and several boots, it decided there was a missing file and would not start the VM.  Resolved this by removing the old drive entry from the VMSD file. Today, it decided to reject the new drive, device not ready.  Removed and added it agian from the VM, no change.  I scanned it, no issues.  I gave it a drive letter on the host, looked at it, removed the drive letter again, and now the VM likes it.  Also, I've had no issues accessing this drive in the before, smart is fine, I think the drive and controller are fine, it's something about WS9. 2013-03-11T21:31:01.250-04:00| vmx| I120: VMXAIOMGR: Retry on write "\\.\PhysicalDrive1" : The device is not ready. 2013-03-11T21:31:01.250-04:00| vmx| I120: VMXAIOMGR: system : err=150002 errCode=21 freeSpace=18446744073709551615 2013-03-11T21:31:01.250-04:00| vmx| I120: VMXAIOMGR: "\\.\PhysicalDrive1" : write s=3263459328 n=4096 ne=1, fai=0 Why remove the driver letter?  On reboot of the host, or power down the VM, there was a chance the host would lock the physical drive.  It has recycle and system restore disabled but windows (or some other program I use) likes to discover hardware and claim it.   I found that removing the drive letter on the host prevents the "drive in use" error.  (I forgot the exact message).    The error today was different. So I'm good for now.

Re: WS9 merging rawdisk snapsots

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎02-22-2013 07:22 PM
‎02-22-2013 07:22 PM
I'm not sure how that started, probably when I upgraded it bug'd out. But OK there's no way to repair this from within VM, I'll use an external method. I could setup a new drive and just copy e... See more...
I'm not sure how that started, probably when I upgraded it bug'd out. But OK there's no way to repair this from within VM, I'll use an external method. I could setup a new drive and just copy everything to it from inside the VM.

Re: WS9 merging rawdisk snapsots

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎02-22-2013 05:40 PM
‎02-22-2013 05:40 PM
Here's the file listing. 02/22/2013  02:45 PM    43,289,673,728 VM-Test-Raw-000001-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM               489 VM-Test-Raw-000001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM     8,840,282... See more...
Here's the file listing. 02/22/2013  02:45 PM    43,289,673,728 VM-Test-Raw-000001-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM               489 VM-Test-Raw-000001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM     8,840,282,112 VM-Test-Raw-000002-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM               463 VM-Test-Raw-000002.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM     1,270,677,504 VM-Test-Raw-000003-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM               463 VM-Test-Raw-000003.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM       630,390,784 VM-Test-Raw-000004-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM               463 VM-Test-Raw-000004.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM    25,114,705,920 VM-Test-Raw-000005-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM               456 VM-Test-Raw-000005.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM    22,867,673,088 VM-Test-Raw-000006-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM               489 VM-Test-Raw-000006.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM    68,128,997,376 VM-Test-Raw-000007-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM               463 VM-Test-Raw-000007.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:45 PM       245,366,784 VM-Test-Raw-000008-s001.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:44 PM               346 VM-Test-Raw-000008.vmdk 02/22/2013  02:00 PM               738 VM-Test-Raw.vmdk

Re: WS9 merging rawdisk snapsots

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎02-22-2013 05:27 PM
‎02-22-2013 05:27 PM
My VMX is attached
VM-Test.vmx

WS9 merging rawdisk snapsots

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎02-21-2013 11:02 PM
‎02-21-2013 11:02 PM
This VM has somehow been making snapshots of a rawdisk. Rawdisk is not supposed to have snapshots. There are 7 snapshot vmdk files, totaling over 200g. There is only one snapshot showing in sn... See more...
This VM has somehow been making snapshots of a rawdisk. Rawdisk is not supposed to have snapshots. There are 7 snapshot vmdk files, totaling over 200g. There is only one snapshot showing in snapshot manager. Do I need to open up these vdmk and copy the data to the physical drive (starting with s001)? Or setup a second drive to copy the data over?

[solved] no connectivity - network - internet

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎11-22-2012 11:46 PM
‎11-22-2012 11:46 PM
Bridged networking stopped working. The solution was to specify the NIC in vmnetcfg, "bridged to" No networking changes were made to cause this, not by a human, anyway. The downtime was as l... See more...
Bridged networking stopped working. The solution was to specify the NIC in vmnetcfg, "bridged to" No networking changes were made to cause this, not by a human, anyway. The downtime was as long as 3 days, during which updates were run and the system was rebooted, this is likely the cause. Lucky the affected systems were not of 24/7 importance. Problem solved.

VMPlayer maximizes window, how to prevent this

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎05-08-2012 03:28 AM
‎05-08-2012 03:28 AM
When the VMPlayer starts, it tries to maximize its window.... Is there an option to prevent this? Later, when the VM is loged in and running, it resizes the guest to match its host window, aw... See more...
When the VMPlayer starts, it tries to maximize its window.... Is there an option to prevent this? Later, when the VM is loged in and running, it resizes the guest to match its host window, awesome! But at start, it misbehaves, is there a way to set one of the following? 1) Unresized window with scroll bars 2) VM window side reduced to fit in the window. And of course... 3) Option for this in the menus.