VMware displays or popsup an error messages like this
Error : The filespecified is not a virtual disk
Platform : ESX , Workstation , Fusion
Anamnese
I guess you have already seen this error message …
sometimes the cause for this is banal - sometimes you are lost.
Recently I saw some cases I have not seen before so here is an updated
checklist for next time …
Listed from from easy - to - impossible to fix
- simple syntax error in external descriptor-file
- referenced file has been moved
- wiped out external descriptor-file
- simple syntax error in embedded descriptor
- wiped blank embedded descriptor
- wiped header of sparse vmdk
- wiped header of data slice of a twoGbMaxExtendFlat vmdk
- wiped header of data slice of a twoGbMaxExtendSparse vmdk
- referenced file is missing completely
Cure