Hi all,
I had a VMWare Server machine that died. Horribly. There was smoke.
I need to restore a VM from that machine onto VMWare Workstation.
I managed to get the files for the VM off of it so I now have the folder that had all of the files (vmdk, vmx, vmsn, vmsd etc)
I don't have another suitable server to get VMWare Server back up and running so I'm trying to use VMWare Workstation instead.
I do not know the verison of VMWare Server that was on the old server. I might be able to find out if it becomes a problem.
VMWare Workstation is v10
So, Opening up the VMX file and it seems to load up the configuration ok. But I can't power on the server.
I get the message: "Failed to lock the file. Cannot open the disk 'c:\vms\ubuntu\ubuntu-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Module DiskEarly power on failed. Failed to start the Virtual Machine".
Ok, so we have a snapshot it would seem. There is indeed the files "ubuntu.vmdk" and a "ubunti-000001.vmdk" as well as "ubuntu.vmsd" and "ubuntu-snapshot14.vmsn".
So, how do I get this sorted? I can't do anything with the snapshots on the old server because it's dead.
I'll attach a screenshot of the folder with the files in.
Cheers in advance for your help,
Sam Hobday
