Jul 22 09:22:32.141: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : “myvm.vmdk” : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified). Jul 22 09:22:32.141: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : “myvm.vmdk” : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).
In the virtual machine’s vmware.log file, you see messages similar to:. The disk descriptor file for the virtual machine’s disk does not exist or is corrupted. The flat file exists when viewing the virtual machine’s directory via the terminal, VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), or VMware Command-Line Interface (vCLI). When powering on a virtual machine, you see a File not found error. The virtual machine disk file listed in the Datastore Browser is your virtual machine’s flat file, and does not have an icon. You may need to recreate missing header/descriptor files if: This article helps you to recreate a lost virtual disk descriptor file. This disk is comprised of a examplevm.vmdk descriptor file of under 1 KB, and a 10 GB examplevm-flat.vmdk flat file which contains virtual machine content. For example, a virtual machine named examplevm has one disk attached to it. One is a text file containing descriptive data about the virtual hard disk, and the second is the actual content of that disk. Each disk drive for a virtual machine consists of a pair of.