Unable to boot from vmware vmdk by javaruby » Sun May 08, am The attached screenshot - can't copy to clipboard ; - shows boot problem. The contents of the vmdk that was configured as the virtual hard disk is copied below: it points to 10 binary vmdk's of about 1GB each. Any ideas on this? You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. Now you know the first method of copying the contents of the VMDK file to another location when an operating system installed on a VM cannot boot.
This method is similar to the previous one, but a VMDK virtual disk should be attached to an existing virtual machine that has a functioning operating system. Keep in mind that the functioning operating system on the first healthy VM must be compatible with file systems used on a virtual disk of the second VM that has a non-bootable operating system a VM whose VMDK file you want to attach as an additional virtual disk to extract files.
Power off the VM that uses a virtual disk from which files you want to extract. Find this virtual disk in the ESXi datastore. Copy the virtual disk to another directory on the same datastore or another datastore to prevent an error caused by virtual disk lock. The ESXi host is managed by vCenter. If you use a standalone ESXi host without vCenter, you can use the logics explained in this example — the differences are only in the user interface.
Select destination and hit the Copy button to confirm. In the opened window, select the destination. You can copy the VMDK file to some location on the same datastore or to another datastore. Both vmdk and - flat. A virtual disk can be attached to this healthy VM while the VM is running.
Select the copy of your VMDK file that you have made previously. In the current example, the copy of Win-test2. Power on the healthy VM to which you have attached the virtual disk you are interested in, if the VM has not been powered on yet. A virtual disk is added on the fly for a running Windows Server VM. By default, the new attached disk is offline. Right click the disk and hit Online. A disk letter should be assigned automatically for partitions on the added disk. If a disk letter has not been assigned for a partition, right click the partition and hit Change Drive Letter and Paths.
This method can be used when there is no free disk space on the ESXi datastore to copy a virtual disk, for example. As you recall, a virtual disk of the ESXi format consists of vmdk and -flat. Be aware that when you download a thin provisioned virtual disk from an ESXi datastore that has the VMFS file system to your computer, you will get a lightweight vmdk file and a -flat. This is because thin provisioning can be considered as a VMFS file system feature. The size of the thin provisioned virtual disk on the VMFS datastore is about 2GB now see the screenshot above and the size of the same disk downloaded to a workstation machine is about 8GB see the screenshot below.
Unzip the two files from the archive. By default, the files are extracted to the Win-test2. For performing the next step, you should have a healthy VM with a functional operating system on your machine with VMware Workstation of Player installed. The Add Hardware Wizard is open.
Select Hard disk as the hardware type. Then, select a type of disk you may leave the recommended value. On the Select a Disk screen, select the Use an existing virtual disk option. Assume you have the following vmdk files : vmdkname.
To Merge then into single vmdk file. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Published by grammatikosblog. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Instead, use vmkfstools :. I have also had success doing this using the command line. Kind of heavy lifting, though - one has to RTFM and Google search carefully to find the right incantations. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.
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