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VMWare Fusion - Missing Drives

Hi,
I have a pretty big VM about 72GB total. It's basically a Windows Server 2003 image with Oracle software installed and running in a VM environment so I can do demos for customers etc... I zipped up every .vmdk file and uploaded the .zip which was 29GB to Dropbox. Then on the other end, I unzip the file, and am trying to create the image in VMWare Fusion as the recipient has a Mac. It works fine, except in the image there should be drives C, D, E, F, G, H. When he logs into the image in Fusion, there is no H drive. How is this possible? I'm new to Fusion. Are we selecting the wrong choices when creating the VM in Fusion?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

You are not missing a disk? (vmdk file), although I would have though if you were missing a vmdk (disk) file, the VM would have complained when you turned it own.

Check inside the VM (Windows 2003), highlight My Computer, DIsk Management, is the partition there, it's just not been allocate a drive letter?

Was the VM created on a single 72GB disk, with several partitions?

The H drive wasn't a usb drive or network drive of cdrom drive?

ASKER

When I fire up the same VM using VM Ware Workstation on a Windows 7 machine, it works fine and all drives are there. Not idea how it was created. Couldn't have been a network drive and still work on my WM Ware Workstation, could it?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

No.

Is it a logical partition that's missing,all partitions are on a single disk?

did you check the disk in disk management on Fusion VM?

ASKER

friend is in UK, sent him a screen shot as to what it should be... i attached how mine looks in vmware workstation......

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

get him to check Partitions in Disk Management. It may just be as simple, as he needs to Assign a Drive Letter H: to the patition. (okay, so he's nearer me than you!)

ASKER

OK.. So on his it's on big 70GB partition to the C:\ drive... Attached pic... How can this happen when we are using the exact same VM files?

ASKER

Here's the screen shots of the partitions on the Fusion VM... Why would it just give a 70GB drive and not all the others that should be in the image?
Fusion-VM-Partitions.docx

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

can you post a picture of the same on Windows VM?

ASKER

WM-Ware-Workstation-VM-Partition.docx

ASKER

So originally I zipped up every file of the VM into one file and sent to him. He then sent me this back:

ok, I know what it going on..... when I unzip the original file I get 79GB as what it should be, with ALL the files there. When I create the VM it takes away 50GB of files, i.e. the ones I thought were missing, it is not using the remaining files which must relate to the other drives?? hence they aren't in the VM that I have created. So, how do we get VMware to use ALL the files and build ALL the drives?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

okay, clearly looking at that latest picture possible three disk files called vmdk files are missing. can you post the contents of the vmx file from the pc version.

ASKER

so my whole directory?

ASKER

Here's a complete file list. This VM boots up fine in Win 7 via Workstation and has all the drives. I zipped all these files and then my buddy unzips on his side and via VMWare Fusion builds the VM. However he only gets the 70GB C drive and B, G and H are missing :(
files.txt

ASKER

see his comments above after he builds the VM

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

ill have a look at files?

could you also open and paste contents of the vmx file as well here thanks

ASKER

just open it in a text editor?

ASKER

.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
memsize = "3600"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "0"
displayName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009"
guestOS = "winnetstandard"
numvcpus = "2"
tools.remindInstall = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmdk"
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:1.fileName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009 (2).vmdk"
scsi0:2.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:2.fileName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009 (3).vmdk"
scsi0:3.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:3.fileName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009 (4).vmdk"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
lsilogic.noDriver = "FALSE"
guestOSAltName = ""
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
nvram = "bic2g_build27.nvram"
sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
tools.syncTim = "TRUE"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
vmware.tools.requiredversion = "7202"
vmware.tools.internalversion = "7202"
vmware.tools.installstate = "none"
vmware.tools.lastInstallStatus.result = "unknown"

floppy0.fileName = "A:"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "E:"
ide0:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
workingDir = ""

annotation = "BIC2g:EPM June-2009 VM(BIEE 10.1.3.4.1, Hyperion 11.1.1.1, BIApps 7.9.6)"

scsi0:0.redo = ""
scsi0:1.redo = ""
scsi0:2.redo = ""
scsi0:3.redo = ""
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:79:4a:ff"
uuid.location = "56 4d ca 9c d6 d1 4f f0-8e 19 e0 60 f5 79 4a ff"
uuid.bios = "56 4d ca 9c d6 d1 4f f0-8e 19 e0 60 f5 79 4a ff"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

extendedConfigFile = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmxf"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "21561344"

ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "FALSE"
cleanShutdown = "FALSE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
monitor.virtual_mmu = "software"
monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

i wondering here if the Mac does not like the disk filenames

which are listed June -2009. (2).vmdk

etc

so after extracting on the Mac make the file names simpler eg. disk1.vmdk disk2.vmdk

or diskc.vmdk diskb.vmdk and update the vmx accordingly on the mac.

ASKER

can i ask a stupid question as I'm not a vmware king... what does the vmdk files hold?

ASKER

New vmx file:

.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
memsize = "4096"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "0"
displayName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009"
guestOS = "winnetstandard"
numvcpus = "2"
tools.remindInstall = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmdk"
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:1.fileName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2.vmdk"
scsi0:2.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:2.fileName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3.vmdk"
scsi0:3.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:3.fileName = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4.vmdk"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
lsilogic.noDriver = "FALSE"
guestOSAltName = ""
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
nvram = "bic2g_build27.nvram"
sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
tools.syncTim = "TRUE"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
vmware.tools.requiredversion = "7202"
vmware.tools.internalversion = "7202"
vmware.tools.installstate = "none"
vmware.tools.lastInstallStatus.result = "unknown"

floppy0.fileName = "A:"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "E:"
ide0:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
workingDir = ""

annotation = "BIC2g:EPM June-2009 VM(BIEE 10.1.3.4.1, Hyperion 11.1.1.1, BIApps 7.9.6)"

scsi0:0.redo = ""
scsi0:1.redo = ""
scsi0:2.redo = ""
scsi0:3.redo = ""
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:79:4a:ff"
uuid.location = "56 4d ca 9c d6 d1 4f f0-8e 19 e0 60 f5 79 4a ff"
uuid.bios = "56 4d ca 9c d6 d1 4f f0-8e 19 e0 60 f5 79 4a ff"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

extendedConfigFile = "BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmxf"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "21561344"

ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "FALSE"
cleanShutdown = "FALSE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
monitor.virtual_mmu = "software"
monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"

ASKER

New file list after renaming files:

04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,823,080,448 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s001.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,497,694,208 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s002.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,118,765,056 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s003.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,568,473,088 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s004.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,721,106,432 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s005.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,068,761,088 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s006.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 781,123,584 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s007.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 393,216 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s008.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s009.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s010.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 131,072 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2-s011.vmdk
04/28/2011 02:46 PM 1,383 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,122,842,112 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s001.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,260,650,496 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s002.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,330,708,480 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s003.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,102,722,560 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s004.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,103,115,776 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s005.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,071,265,280 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s006.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,069,495,808 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s007.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,501,167,616 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s008.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 21,364,736 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s009.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 7,733,248 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s010.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 14,745,600 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s011.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s012.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 393,216 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s013.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s014.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s015.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s016.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s017.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s018.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s019.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s020.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 131,072 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3-s021.vmdk
04/28/2011 02:46 PM 1,698 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3.vmdk
04/28/2011 02:46 PM <DIR> BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-3.vmdk.lck
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,062,090,240 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4-s001.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 661,913,600 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4-s002.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,048,576 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4-s003.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4-s004.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4-s005.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 131,072 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4-s006.vmdk
04/28/2011 02:46 PM 858 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4.vmdk
04/28/2011 02:46 PM <DIR> BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-4.vmdk.lck
04/30/2011 12:53 PM 2,143,879,168 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s001.vmdk
04/30/2011 12:53 PM 1,304,035,328 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s002.vmdk
04/30/2011 12:53 PM 128,122,880 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s003.vmdk
04/30/2011 12:53 PM 2,134,441,984 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s004.vmdk
04/30/2011 12:53 PM 2,106,392,576 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s005.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,145,517,568 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s006.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,130,575,360 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s007.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,145,452,032 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s008.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,145,779,712 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s009.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,146,762,752 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s010.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,145,189,888 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s011.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,144,600,064 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s012.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,145,124,352 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s013.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,146,762,752 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s014.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,146,631,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s015.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,143,682,560 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s016.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,136,276,992 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s017.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,145,910,784 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s018.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,663,369,216 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s019.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,764,818,944 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s020.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,164,836,864 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s021.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 600,571,904 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s022.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,102,774,272 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s023.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 447,676,416 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s024.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,412,628,480 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s025.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,146,762,752 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s026.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,113,798,144 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s027.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,010,761,728 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s028.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s029.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s030.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s031.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 327,680 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s032.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 1,032,978,432 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s033.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 2,146,762,752 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s034.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 134,938,624 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s035.vmdk
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 131,072 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-s036.vmdk
04/28/2011 02:46 PM 2,639 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmdk
04/28/2011 03:19 AM 1,895,825,408 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmem
06/09/2009 08:06 AM 0 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmsd
04/28/2011 03:19 AM 59,994 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmss
04/30/2011 02:44 PM 2,120 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmx
09/16/2009 01:01 PM 276 BIC2gEPM VM June-2009.vmxf
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 8,684 bic2g_build27.nvram
09/16/2009 01:00 PM 5,883 bic2g_epm_jun2009_vm.log
04/30/2011 12:35 PM 7,004 files.txt
04/30/2011 02:24 PM 28,680,090,768 Hyperion_Image.rar
04/30/2011 02:45 PM 0 new_file_list.txt
04/28/2011 03:19 AM 126,770 vmware-0.log
04/26/2011 04:16 PM 95,124 vmware-1.log
03/31/2011 02:48 PM 81,132 vmware-2.log
04/29/2011 04:09 PM 94,255 vmware.log

ASKER

When I try and power up the VM, I get:

Unable to open file "E:\Users\elwayisgod\Desktop\Hyperion_Image\BIC2gEPM VM June-2009-2.vmdk": The system cannot find the file specified.

ASKER

I see the file in the list... not sure...

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

ah, thats not going to work because the disks are spanned, eg the vmdk chains the next spanned disk.

oh re extract the files, remove the disk 2 3 4 from the vm properties not delete from disk, and add back one by one, check they are all listed before power on

ASKER

OK. So to be clear.

1 - Remove the disk 2,3 and 4 lines from vmx file.
2 - Start up the VM
3 - Add disk 2 back
4 - Start VM

etc....

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ASKER

oh... I will have to have my buddy in UK try that. I'm not a Apple or Fusion guy either. Is this done on the screen where you 'power up' vm?

ASKER

Can I do same thing in Workstation on Windows is what Im asking :)

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

yes, it is done in the edit properties screen.

the issue here is with similar long filenames.

ASKER

So do you think this image will work on Fusion? Or only Workstation on Windows?