HI all,
I am unable to get a new VM Machine to start (that I created today ).
I am not very savvy with VMWARE, so please excuse my apparent route level knowledge of (VMware), but I would greatly appreciate
your guidance in resolving this. Thank you for your help and guidence.
Scenariio
- I have a dual boot computer (XP\W2k3SP2)
- After configuring the W2k3 env the way I needed it, I created a NEW VM Machine and saved it then zipped it with RAR.
- It was a 40 GB VM machine allocation and after RAR zipped it, it was about 25 MB file.
- I copied that RAR zipped VM to the C Drive, Uncompressed and saw these files;
- W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5.vmdk --------- ( 1kb )
- W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5-flat.vmdk ----- ( 41,943,040 kb )
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd --------- ( 0 kb )
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd ----------- ( 1 kb )
When I try to start up this VM machine ( first time) I am getting a few errors;
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ERRORS
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- PXE-E53: No boot filename received
- PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
- Operating system not found
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FILES
W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5.vmdk
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# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=9cc5c340
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="monolithicFlat"
# Extent description
RW 83886080 FLAT "W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5-flat.vmdk" 0
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "5221"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
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Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd
CONTENTS ARE BLANK
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Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmsd
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config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
numvcpus = "2"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "384"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "W2K3ENTSP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "W2K3SP2_SQL2008SP2_SDM_R12.5"
guestOS = "winnetenterprise"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
Version - 1.05