When setting up my lab, I wanted to recover a number of virtual machines that power on my old server.
I encountered an error “Unsupported or invalid disk type 7” when I started these machines because they were created with VMware Workstation!
To correct this problem, you will have to convert the disk “* .vmdk” so that it can be in the correct format.
How to convert the disk ?
Connect you onto the server in SSH.
- Move to datastore with command line
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cd /vmfs/volumes/5448d4df-529ff66a-95de-5cf9ddbef5c1/VM/ |
- Rename the original vmdk
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mv VMxxx.vmdk VMxxx_original.vmdk |
- Execute this command line to change vmdk format (This operation will be clone your original VMDK file.)
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vmkfstools -i VMxxx_original.vmdk VMxxx.vmdk |
Next step, you need to add new existing hardware disk and select this new one.
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