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vmdk file is hard disk of the VMWare virtual machine. There are many scenarios where you may need to create a new virtual machine for an existing vmdk file. This is also an alternate Method to the “ vmx is not a valid virtual machine configuration file – Could not open virtual machine ” issue. Please refer to the previous post “ Could not open virtual machine – vmx is not a valid virtual machine configuration file ” for a full list of possible resolution. This post is to describe one of the solution in more details. How To Create a new virtual machine & attach the existing .vmdk file: 1. Open VMware and select create a new virtual machine with custom (advanced) configuration option. 2. Chose “I will install the operating system later”. and chose “I will install the operating system later”. 3. Select the operating system that matches the operating system in your existing .vldk file. 4. Select a location of the new virtual machine 5. Chose “Use an exis...

I recently faced an issue with one of my VMWare virtual machine that when I try to run this virtual machine it did not work. VMWare display this message that “Could not open virtual machine: .vmx. ".vmx" is not a valid virtual machine configuration file.” ISSUE: Could not open virtual machine: G:\VPC\RakhiQAXPProfQtp\Windows XP Professional.vmx. "G:\VPC\RakhiQAXPProfQtp\Windows XP Professional.vmx" is not a valid virtual machine configuration file. I try to open .vmx file [G:\VPC\RakhiQAXPProfQtp\Windows XP Professional.vmx] in notepad then I found it was empty (0 KB). Resolution: I wanted to resolve it quickly so I try following method and it worked very well. But this is not a valid documented process so please try with caution. Following are the steps 1. First of all go to the folder where you have your virtual machine and delete all .lck folders. 564df2d4-03de-04e8-d1c3-bd2d53dcb1b7.vmem.lck Windows XP Professional.vmdk.lck ...

A good article on Virtual PC 2007 vs VMWare Workstation 6.5 . Summary of his result is “the VMWare virtual machine ran 2.9 times faster than the Virtual PC machine”. Below is a screenshot from www.tsjensen.com website.

Another issue I faced few days back was - VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmx). VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmx) NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-185404/bora/vmx/main/pollVMX.c:3651 A log file is available in "G:\VPC\RakhiQAXPProfQtp\vmware.log".  A core file is available in "G:\VPC\RakhiQAXPProfQtp\vmware-vmx-4392.dmp".  Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file.  To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly. We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement. Resolution: This is not a documented method but something that worked for me. I think of it because of my extensive experience with restarting the Microsoft Windows for the resolution of many issues :) Steps: Close VMWare Restart the Host operat...

I face this issue when my VMWare could not open the virtual machine and was giving error: Failed to lock the file - Cannot open the disk *.vmdlk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Cannot open the disk 'G:\VPC\WinXpPro\Windows XP Professional-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Failed to lock the file. Resolution: To solve this issue I opened the folder that has my virtual machine files ('G:\VPC\WinXpPro\). I found couple of folders that are named as ***.lck. I select them all and deleted them. You can also try to rename them if not comfortable with deleting them. Windows XP Professional-000002.vmdk.lck 564df2d4-03de-04e8-d1c3-bd2d53dcb1b7.vmem.lck Windows XP Professional.vmdk.lck Windows XP Professional-000001.vmdk.lck Windows XP Professional.vmx.lck

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It was fairly simple to do that and one of the following link can help you with this. http://mcpmag.com/columns/rss.asp?editorialsid=1169 http://vmprofessional.com/index.php?content=2k3resize http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=685039 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1647 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 Sample from my case: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600](C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\vjs866\Desktop>cd \ C:\>cd "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation" C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware -vdiskmanager -x 34gb "C:\1\Virtual Machines\Win2003Ent\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-cl1.vmdk" C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -x 34gb "C:\1\Virtual Machines\Win2003Ent\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition-cl1.vmdk"Using log file C:\DOCUME~1\vjs866\LOCALS~1\Temp\vmware-vjs866\vdiskmanag...