Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)

12 03 2008

I copied one of my Windows XP virtual machine running on a VMWare Server 1.02 host locally to my workstation. After the files were copied I opened the vmx file with VMWare Workstation 6 and received the error below after trying to start the virtual machine. I made one snapshot on the VMWare Server host.

Cannot open the disk ‘C:\VM-machines\Windows XP-001\Windows XP Professional-000001.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Failed to lock the file.

 

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Locate the virtual machine in Windows Explorer and delete any .lck folders

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Start the virtual machine. If this fails try to Map the virtual hard disk to Z:\

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I than disconnect the virtual hard disk and retried. The virtual machine boot without any problem; my snapshot was valid.

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  • Date : 12 March 2008
  • Categories : VMWare

2 responses to “Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)”

27 09 2008
BT (21:34:14) :

Thanks! Worked for me.

–BT

29 09 2008
tex (22:57:15) :

I virtualized a fisical machine but when i tried to open on workstation i got the same error: failed to lock the file. So i removed the 2 folders .lck but when starting again the machine i get this error: Cannot connect virtual device ide1:1. No corresponding device is available on the host.
It tries to open but as soon as windows screen appears i get a blu screen! i tried to map the drive to z as you suggested but i get the same error.
Can you helpme please. thanks

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