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QEMU img convert invalid parameter

Typing the command: qemu-img convert -o vmdk /path/file.VHDX ~/path/file.VMDK Returns response: qemu-img: Invalid parameter 'vmdk' I'm converting a Windows 11 Client ARM64 into a VMDK file for my VM. ...
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Increasing memory giving error in VMware ESXi

I'm getting this error when I tried to increase the memory of a VM in VMware ESXi Failed to reconfigure virtual machine XXX. Unable to access file [VMS] XXX/boot.vmdk boot.vmdk is already exist but ...
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AWS: error on import of OVF/OVA file from a VMWare ESXi

My goal is to migrate a VM from VMWare to AWS EC2. I exported the "OVF+VMDK" file from VMWare ESXI 6.5. I also converted to an OVA file to be able to test both OVF and OVA format. I followed ...
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How to determine disk image file format: VMDK, VHD or raw file format?

Is there any shell command using which I can determine the format of a disk image file? I want to check that disk image file is in which of these formats: vmdk, vhd of raw file.
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It is possible to replace a flat.vmdk file with a older backup version of the file?

We have an vmware (6.0) machine that uses vmdk-files. There are flat.vmdk and delta.vmdk files. The files are dated with 27.05.2021. As far as I know, the flat.vmdk are read only and did not get ...
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Copying thin VMFS .vmdk to a NAS

Short version: I want to copy a thin provisioned VMFS .vmdk from the free ESXI to a NAS for backup. How I do it? Are there any way which works out of the box? Naive copying doesn't work because it ...
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Migrate ESXi vm to qcow2 with settings preserved?

I have attempted to export a vm in ESXi which produced 3 files: vm_name.ovf (12KB) disk-0-2.vmdk (73KB) disk-1.vmdk (1.2GB) I assumed the larger file (disk-1.vmdk) was the flat file and ...
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How to repaire a vmdk that is "is corrupted and cannot be repaired."

I was running a virtual machine in VMware Fusion 11 when my computer crashed. When I tried to start it up again I saw an error message informing me that "The disk has one or more internal errors that ...
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ESXi 6.0 exports empty OVF files?

I've exported a few old VMs the last few days to clean up our environments. I was trying to reimport one and received an error in the ESXi web client. Upon investigation, I noticed that the majority ...
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Rename VMDK file in esxi 6.5

I am attempting to rename VMDK's to eliminate spaces in the name. Because I want to migrate our VMs from an old ESXi Server to a new Version Server. (with scp command , I can only migrate VMs ...
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Populate Snapshot manager with missing snapshots or revert to one manually?

Is there a way to populate the Snapshot Manager with snapshots that are listed in the datastore but not under Manage Snapshots. Is there a way to either populate Manage Snapshots or using something ...
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Shrinking a preallocated VMDK

I'm trying to shrink an 80GB preallocated CentOS VMDK that I've been given from a previous VMware environment, that I've been asked to get running on another host. The billing arrangement for this new ...
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Vmware ESXI one hard disk but 2 vmdk files

I have a virtual machine on Vmware ESXI, I have currently a defined hard disk and the size of it is :1.5 TB But when I check the Datastore, there are 2 VMDK files which one of them (the main file of ...
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Mapped VMDK no longer accessible - VMware ESX - recover data

At my company we have a virtual Windows 2012 R2 server running on VMware ESX. The server has 3 disks attached on different LUNs. (Disk 1 & 2 are on a smaller LUN containing multiple servers that ...
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Deploy OVF Package Fails

Using vSphere client I am trying to import a VM that was exported from VirtualBox. I exported an .ova file from VirtualBox, I then used VMVware OVF Tool to modify the file .ova and create the ...
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qemu-img convert CentOS7 vmdk to qcow2 and vice versa error

I'm trying to convert CentOS7 from VMDK to QCOW2 and vice versa using qemu-img convert command. when uploading the new Templates (OVF with the new converted vmdk and KVM template with the new ...
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What are the chances of recovering any data from *-flat.vmdk file which didn't finish coping?

Does anybody know if there is a chance of recovering data from a *-flat.vmdk file from (ESXi 6 /VMFS-5) which didn't finish coping? Unfortunately backup is not available. The image file was thick ...
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Ensuring VMware ESXi storage integrity?

I'm planning a small ESXi standalone server to host a number of VMs I use here. I haven't decided what facilities to use from the wider vSphere system. The underlying VM storage is local HDD RAID ...
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Virtual disk expansion

I'm running a virtual image (which happens to be our server for a number of programs) on a machine running ESXi 5.5.0. Although the host computer has a SSD of about 200GB, the virtual image was ...
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Converting virtual drives from .vmdk to .vhdx produces huge files

I'm using powershell and ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk cmdlet to convert .vmdk disks into .vhdx disks to be able to run them in our hyper-v environment. For some reason, the .vhdx files produced are ...
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Loop back mount a VMDK flat image on a Linux Box

I am trying to loop mount a VMDK flat image generated by VMware fusion. The VMDK file has the -flat extension. I am trying to use kpartx kpartx -av /path/to /my/vmdk but I get llseek error device-...
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How do I move files from an ESXi datastore onto a VM?

I uploaded two 15GB .WIM images onto my ESXi 6.0.0 datastore. I have a VM that I would like to image using those .WIM files from within a WinPE environment but can't access the files from within the ...
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Recovering broken VMDK image

we had a disk failure on our VM host (VMWare ESXI 5.1). We've managed to get some of the data off but some of the file we couldn't get as it kept on causing the disk to crash. I have file like ...
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Replacing failed drive on a ESXi host

I have a failing drive on my ESXi 4 host and I'm going to replace it. There is no fault tolerance (RAID), each drive on its own. I'm planning do offline dding old drive to new one but I'm not sure ...
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qemu.img: conversion of a VMDK image failed with error "invalid VMDK image descriptor"

I trying to convert a VMDK image (Windows installed) to RAW format with the qemu-img command. However, it is failing with the following error: $ qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw image.vmdk /tmp/...
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Why is my vSphere disk now thick provisioned?

I have a vSphere 5.0 VM that was created with entirely thin-provisioned disks (I don't have any other options when creating them). A year later, one of the disks is now no longer thin provisioned but ...
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New virtualized windows server with 4 partitions

i'm going to set up a new Windows Server 2008R2 on vmware and it will be composed of 4 partitions: in order to have the best performance and manageability do you think that it's better to create a ...
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Where is the location of shares stored in Windows Server? (Switching iSCSI disk to VMDK)

I have a virtualized Windows Server 2008 with iSCSI volume attached (inside the guest). This disk servers as the main file server data disk with lots of shares, permissions, etc. I would like to "...
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Converting .OVA-formatted VM to Hyper-V

I am struggling with importing an .OVA VM into my Hyper-V infrastructure. I managed to extract the .ova file using tar which yields three fiels - .ovf .mf and .vmdk. The .mf-contained SHA1 sums ...
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ESX convert vmdk from sparse to thin without creating a new instance

I am using vmkfstools to create a thin provisioned vmdk from a sparse vmdk. I would like to be able to just rename the vmdk and flat vmdk files to have the name of the original disk and then power on ...
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Qcow2 converted to vmdk show as spare and can't be snapshot

As the title says, kvm disks that I converted and moved to ESXi are useless because I cannot use snapshots due to the fact that they are sparse disks. Does anyone have a resolution for this issue? ...
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ESXi - expanding vmdk file fails with insufficient space on file system

I receive the following error Failed to extend disk : There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation (13). When I run this command: vmkfstools -X 240G srvr.vmdk The disk ...
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How to alter a vm snapshot's ip and mac address?

I have installed VMware and taken a snapshot of a VM. I want to change the virtual operating system's ip address and mac address in the snapshot state. Is there a way to accomplish this by editing ...
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How to mount vmdk inside ESXi 5.0 console

I have some big files inside VM which I need to copy to ESXi host datastore. What is the best/fastest method? Right now I am using vSphere Client inside the VM. VM is running in virtual network with ...
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poor performance with vmdk mounted as loop device even after conversion to raw

Edit 13/12/12 - At this stage it would appear to be related to Western Digital (and possibly others) Advanced Format 4K block sizes. This link goes some way into describing the issue, however the ...
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qemu-img: Could not open $FILE

I received a single-file VMDK from a vendor that has a virtual appliance for a particular product I'm interested in evaluating. We run a KVM solution (Proxmox) so I tried converting the file but on ...
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Converted VHD to VMDK but vmx missing

I converted vhd to vmdk, and with vmware worstation tried to import the vmdk, but it says vmx is missing. when i did the conversion vmx file wasnt created. did i miss anything. i am aware vhd can be ...
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Exchange 2010 VMDK disk design

I am deploying Exchange 2010 on a single server on my VMware/SAN. We have about 100 mailboxes. I will be using normal VMDK disks, so my question is about the disk design. Should I put everything on ...
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conversion of a VMDK image with qemu-img failed with "error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument"

I tried to convert a VMDK image found in a OVA file to the QCOW2 format with the qemu-img command but it failed with the error message qemu-img: error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument ...
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Downloaded -flat.vmdk from snapshoted machine is different everytime

I have a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0, machine has one Thick provisioned disk stored in VM forder (residing on local datastore). I am planning to move the virtual machine to another ...
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How can I create an Amazon Machine Image from a large VMDK file?

I am in the process of attempting to create an Amazon Machine Image from a large (160 GB) VMDK disk image of a virtual machine running Linux; however, I keep running up against notices about a 10 GB ...
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VMWare vmfs vs NFS datastore with vmdk?

I want to add a new harddisk to an existing VM and want the best performance possible. The new hard disk will exist on an NFS datastore. Currently I did the following: Created new vmdk on NFS ...
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VMware VM with more than 2TB of disk space

I'm a VCP 4 so I'm aware of the configuration maximums for LUNs/RDMs/VMDKs in vSphere 4, but say I want to create a VM that has a logical drive bigger than 2TBs. The only ways I can think of doing ...
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Data Store/Volume disconnecting. How to resume copy of VMDK?

I'm having an issue with my ESXi 4.1 hosts losing the datastore with FC SAN after a power outage. All 3 hosts disconnect so it's definitely a SAN issue. I've tried to resolve the issue on the SAN side ...
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VMware ESXi Missing VMDK (Flat files and snapshots, but no base image)

We recently had a SAN failure that killed a very high-disk-activity VM while it was on. We fixed the failure, but can't boot the VM. When we attempt to, it displays this error message. I checked the ...
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Maximum size of VMDK to support large NTFS filesystem in guest

I have a need to support an 8TB filesystem within a Win2k8 guest system running on VMWare. From what I've read online, the maximum size VMDK I can create is 2T, is this still the case? Will I need ...
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Can I send clients a pre-configured Virtual Machine?

I am not very well acquainted with VM Ware and Virtualization but I am investigating the feasibility of creating a VM Instance using VMWare, Windows Server 2008 R2, and shipping that VM as a complete ...
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Very strange problem with VMDK thin/thick disks

I have some ESXi (4.1) virtual machines which were initially created using thin-provisioned disks, but where then physically moved to different datastores (all of them iSCSI); since these are stand-...
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V2V conversion - linux distro from .vmdk to XenServer .vhd

I am running XenServer for virtualization. I have a linux distro with Big Blue Button (http://bigbluebutton.org/) in .vmdk format that I'd like to run on my XenServer (it uses .vhd files). Problem is ...
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Is it possible to use a disk image file built by vagrant to be used in vmware player/workstation?

Vagrant uses virtualbox for all its tasks. But it supports writing the vmware vmdk file format (virtualbox supports this). It seems to be possible to deploy those image files to EC2 and now I'm asking ...
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