Monday, August 30, 2010

WMware ESX, Snapshots and VMware Tools Installation

Want to know a quick way to break a VM?

http://communities.vmware.com/message/472953

First, setup a VM. Then, begin an installation of the VMware Tools. Before finishing, create a snapshot of the VM.

Boom-presto! Your VM is turned off and marked "invalid"!

I might post a follow up if I confirm a solution to be had.

1 comment:

Nathan said...

In the end, I removed my VM from inventory and attempted to create a new VM pointing to the old disk image. No dice; the files were locked. After attempting a few things, I ended up rebooting the host machine- I had 8 GB of RAM to install in it anyhow- after which my files were unlocked and my newly configured VM was happy.