Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2803 mails)

[Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 04:04:57 am Doctor Who wrote:
> On 7/8/08, John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 7/8/08, Doctor Who <whodoctor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 7/8/08, Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >  > On Tuesday 08 July 2008 04:28:33 pm Doctor Who wrote:
> > >  >> Currently running VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.0 and I
> > >  >> can no longer access my existing VMs. When I go to 'Open' I get:
> > >  >>
> > >  >>
> > >  >>  The folder contents could not be displayed
> > >  >>
> > >  >>  Error stating file '/home/hjs/vmware': No such file or directory
> > >  >>
> > >  >>
> > >  >>  When I browse to a an exiting .vmx file and select it for opening,
> > >  >> I
> > >
> > > get:
> > >  >>  Unable to open "suse_machine.vmx": The file could not be found.
> > >  >>
> > >  >>
> > >  >>  even though the file is clearly there. What is causing this
> > >  >> problem. This happens regardless of whether the .vmx file resides on
> > >  >> a Linux (ext3) partition or Windows (ntfs) partition.
> > >  >>
> > >  >> I should add that uninstalling then re-installing VMware Workstation
> > >  >> did not fix the issue. Existing VMs that appear in the GUI (in the
> > >  >> tabs at the top of the screen) can be run (started, paused, etc.)
> > >  >> but I cannot select any VM by going to the 'Open' menu.
> > >  >>
> > >  >> I have also installed the 'patch' to get Workstation running on 11.0
> > >  >> and this does not address this particular problem.
> > >  >>
> > >  >> Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated.
> > >  >
> > >  > Please do a:
> > >  >
> > >  > pwd && ls -l
> > >  >
> > >  > In the same directory with the .vmx file..
> > >
> > > /WINDOWS/D/WINDOWS/Virtual Machines
> > >  total 124
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  8192 2008-07-08 16:41 ESX3VM6_2
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  4096 2008-03-19 11:52 PXE-ESX
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  8192 2008-07-08 16:41 PXE_RH
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  4096 2008-07-08 16:41 PXE_WIN
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  8192 2008-07-08 16:41 RH-DB
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  8192 2008-05-20 16:36 RH_PATCHING
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  8192 2008-07-08 16:41 RH-WWW
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  8192 2008-07-08 16:41 RH-WWW2
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  4096 2008-03-19 11:49 sol10
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  8192 2008-07-08 16:41 WIN03-DB
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users 12288 2008-07-08 16:41 WIN03-WWW
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users  8192 2008-07-08 16:41 WIN03-WWW2
> > >  drwxrwxrwx 1 root users 12288 2008-05-20 16:29 YUM_RH4
> > >
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> >
> > You did that in the directory ABOVE the directory where the .vmx file is.
> > Go down into one of those directories and find where the .vmx file is
> > located
> > and list that directory.
> >
> > Note that depending on the vintage of the virtual machine you might not
> > have a .vmx file.  Some older vm-s have .cfg files instead.
>
> The .vmx file is there in each case.  In fact, this machine dual boots
> and I can open and run these images in VMWare Workstation from
> Windows.
>
> Here is the contents of one of the directories I had listed above:
>
> /WINDOWS/D/WINDOWS/Virtual Machines/RH-DB
> total 4425469
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users   32899072 2008-07-02 12:57 rh-db-000001.vmdk
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users 4294967296 2008-03-31 13:46 rh-db-flat.vmdk
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users       8684 2008-07-02 12:57 rh-db.nvram
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users  100663296 2008-03-31 13:40 rh-db-Snapshot32.vmem
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users    1101843 2008-03-31 13:40 rh-db-Snapshot32.vmsn
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users        347 2008-03-31 13:46 rh-db.vmdk
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users  100663296 2008-07-02 10:39 rh-db.vmem
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root users          0 2008-07-02 09:37 rh-db.vmem.lck
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users       3498 2008-04-10 20:59 rh-db.vmsd
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users    1112582 2008-07-02 12:57 rh-db.vmss
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root users       1671 2008-07-02 12:57 rh-db.vmx
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users       1192 2005-01-14 16:23 rh-db.vmx~
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users       1216 2005-02-21 12:21 rh-db.vmx.bak
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root users        250 2006-05-11 11:02 rh-db.vmxf
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root users      51531 2008-07-02 09:37 vmware-0.log
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root users      53762 2008-06-25 12:57 vmware-1.log
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root users      53567 2008-06-24 15:49 vmware-2.log
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root users      67441 2008-07-02 12:57 vmware.log
>
> The result is the same regardless of whether the vmx file resides on a
> Windows file system or Linux file system.

Here are a few things to do: 

Give us output of:

mount 

Try moving a virtual machine to folder location without spaces in the name. Or 
put in an underscore where the space is on the Virtual Machine directory.. 

Ben

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