Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)
12 03 2008I 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.
Locate the virtual machine in Windows Explorer and delete any .lck folders
Start the virtual machine. If this fails try to Map the virtual hard disk to Z:\
I than disconnect the virtual hard disk and retried. The virtual machine boot without any problem; my snapshot was valid.
Thanks! Worked for me.
–BT
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
Thank you for your post, it worked great! thanks for sharing the knowledge!
Works! Great Tip
Wow i did it. Great thanks.
Worked for me as well!
thanx
Thanks so much for sharing this with us.