Questions tagged [vmdk]
VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format used by VMware products.
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How do I repair a VMWare Disk file?
I have a copy of Ubuntu 16.04 (guest) running in VMWare Workstation (11.1.3 build-3206955) on Windows 7 (host). I recently was working and received the following message.
The operation on file "C:\...
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VirtualBox doesn't boot vmdk disk
I converted Windows XP mode using VMware Player and vCenter converter and it runs fine. But now I want to run it in VirtualBox and it says "FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted." I went ...
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Vsphere Client Migrate option
I want to convert an VMDK disk THICK into THIN...when i click in the Virtual machine with right button it should Appear MIGRATE option but it dont appear...someone know other method to conver HDD ...
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Can I safely copy vmdk disk while VM is still running?
I have a virtual machine in QEMU with snapshots (vmdk-disk) and I need to have a clone of that machine in another host. But I can't shutdown this VM for some reasons and can't clone it through the ...
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How to boot up a vmware ESXi 6.7 virtual machine that doesn't boot due to lack of space?
I have a VMWare ESXi 6.7 cluster configured by some I.T tech that cannot by now assist us, but I have an urgent needing of solving this boot up problem. The virtual machine doesn't finish booting up, ...
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Virtual Disk .vmdik file taking too much space
I am runing 4 virtual machines on my macbook pro, But i realized recently that virtual disk vmdk files are taking way too much space, I will very much like to delete these .vmdk files but i am not ...
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Test if filesystem was cleanly unmounted
My problem is that a device might be mounted by a suspended virtualbox VM. If so I don't want to change the device under the virtualbox VM. The most obvious check is if the filesystem is cleanly ...
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Which disk image support siplit into files, VDI, VMDK, or VHD?
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What disk image should I use with VirtualBox, VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD?
Does only vmdk format support 'splitting the storage file into files'? What about other formats?
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Best way to split large vmware vmdk disk to 2 smaller disks
I have a large disk of 8 TB on a VMware VM (filled with around 7 TB of data). I need to transfer the data / split the disk into 2 smaller disks of 5tb (as an example). Can someone suggest the best way ...
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rhel + disk util is very high , what is the impact for long term
we have backup server with rhel version 7.2
server is VM machine , and OS disk is VMDK disk
disk used space is around - 50% , and from smartctl we not see problem
as we can see from follwing details
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How can I export a VM to a VMDK in VMware Workstation?
I have a Windows 10 VM in VMware Workstation 16 Pro. My host operating system is also Windows 10.
When I created the VM, I selected to split the disk.
How can I export the VM to a single VMDK file?
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VMware windows 10 does not working with error: Unable to open file "E:\w10\Windows 10.vmdk"
I recently rebooted my computer and when I tried to reopen my virtual Windows 10, I found out that it is not working and the following error appearing:
Unable to open file "E:\w10\Windows 10.vmdk&...
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Error booting VMDK raw disk, but not from VHD created from the same physical drive
I have an unusual problem with a virtual machine. I have a multiboot (Windows XP and Linux From Scratch) installation in a secondary physical drive, and I created a .vmdk that points to that drive to ...
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Is it posible to have the beginning of a .vmdk point to an image of boot and the rest to other partitions?
Trying to boot into my physically installed Windows 10 from Linux via VirtualBox--both are on the same hard-disk. I read a lot of sources:
Possible to dual boot *and* virtualize same physical drive ...
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Mount VMDK with command line on Windows 10 based on VMWare Workstation
We can use VMWare Workstation's GUI to mount a vmdk(with NTFS file system) on Windows, but after a lot of search, I still don't know how to do it with command line. It's better to be a command line ...
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How can I modify a virtual disk (.vmdk) on a remote host (ESXI 5), while the virtual machine is off?
I urgently need help with this one.
I have a server (ESXI 5) running a Windows Server VM. The preallocated virtual disk drive storing the OS ran out of space and the VM is failing to start due to this....
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Extract data from a corrupted .VMDK file
I have a .vmdk file i exported from the Noxapp (android emulator), i tried to extract files with 7zip , there are 3 .img files. I can extract the 0.img and 1.img , but it gives me error "unexpected ...
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VirtualBox VMDK Physical Drive Incorrect Partition Size
So I've setup VirtualBox to work just fine.
I am running Kali Linux within my VM and it can live boot properly. I created a VMDK file that pointed towards the physical drive (a USB) that I wanted to ...
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Convert VMDK to VHD
I need to convert a VMDK to a VHD for importing into Hyper-V.
It seems that the answers to the apparent duplicate here do not help me.
The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter will only take the ...
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can't boot dd'ed and VMDK'ed Linux image in Virtualbox
i've been trying to recover a lnx install (Debian 4.0) from bro's old notebook.
i've dd'd the drive over ssh to my puter, but after i made an vmdk image for use in virtualbox, i got this error during ...
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virtualbox 2 vmware disk
I have a virtualbox disk I'd like to convert to a vmware disk. The disk is dynamic which makes it a lot more trickier. If I follow the instructions at http://xpapad.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/migrating-...
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