Vmdk Descriptor File: Restore

We’ve all been there. You go to power on a virtual machine, and instead of a familiar boot screen, you’re greeted by an error: “Failed to open disk: The file specified is not a virtual disk.”

Have you recovered a VM using this method? Let me know in the comments below! restore vmdk descriptor file

vi WindowsServer.vmdk Here is a standard template for a monolithic sparse or monolithic flat disk. You must change the values in brackets. We’ve all been there

# Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=fffffffe parentCID=ffffffff createType="monolithicFlat" RW [SIZE_IN_SECTORS] VMFS "vmname-flat.vmdk" The Disk Data Base #DDB restore vmdk descriptor file

Create a new file named exactly like the original (e.g., WindowsServer.vmdk ) using vi or nano .