Showing posts with label VMDK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VMDK. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2012

VM will not power on

One of my VMs would not power up. The error it was giving was:

"Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/......vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Argument list too long."

I went into "Edit Settings" for the VM and found that hard disk 2 was referencing was not valid, an empty file. I removed the hard disk, and re-added the hard disk, but pointing to the correct VMDK file.

After that the VM started up just fine.

Reference:
http://vkarthickeyan.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/virtual-machine-not-powered-on/