On 7/8/08, John Andersen
On 7/8/08, Doctor Who
wrote: On 7/8/08, Ben Kevan
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org