Virtual disk manager cannot find the file specified

#Virtual disk manager cannot find the file specified code

#Virtual disk manager cannot find the file specified code

вЂ“> Reason: The system cannot find the file specified.вЂќ and error code -57. вЂ“> Cannot open the disk вЂmyvm_2.vmdkвЂ™ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. T17:59:48.704Z FoundryVMDBPowerOpCallback: VMDB reports power op failed for VM /vmfs/volumes/4e1Д¬0986-14d88a26-416a-000c2988e4dd/myvm/myvm.vmx with error msg = вЂњVMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk вЂњmyvm_2.vmdkвЂќ. In the /var/log/hostd.log file of the ESX 5.0 host, you see messages similar to:.Jul 22 09:22:32.142: vmx| Reason: The system cannot find the file specified. Jul 22 09:22:32.142: vmx| Cannot open the disk вЂmyvm.vmdkвЂ™ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Please verify the path is valid and try again. Jul 22 09:22:32.142: vmx| VMware ESX Server cannot find the virtual disk вЂњmyvm.vmdkвЂќ. Jul 22 09:22:32.141: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open вЂmyvm.vmdkвЂ™ with flags 0xa (The system cannot find the file specified). Jul 22 09:22:32.141: vmx| DISKLIB-CHAIN : вЂњmyvm.vmdkвЂќ : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified). Jul 22 09:22:32.141: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : вЂњmyvm.vmdkвЂќ : failed to open (The system cannot find the file specified).

In the virtual machineвЂ™s vmware.log file, you see messages similar to:.

The disk descriptor file for the virtual machineвЂ™s disk does not exist or is corrupted.

The flat file exists when viewing the virtual machineвЂ™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 machineвЂ™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.