Comments on: VMware ESX – How to easily recreate a missing or corrupt VMX file.

By: aa

aa — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:45:14 +0000

thanks much.you saved me a lot of time.cheers,

By: TooMeeK

TooMeeK — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:54:46 +0000

My VMX file is invalid (after ESX 4.0 update) after adding it to invertory.

Yes, this method is correct, however..
I’m unable to create NIC with same MAC address as it has before.
There is no way to create NIC with auto-assigned MAC identical as it was before.

MAC address poll for auto-created NIC is different from manual-created.

Hope this helps somebody..

By: Tom Berchenbriter

Tom Berchenbriter — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:28:57 +0000

Nothing in the logs, and I tried creating a new vm and pointing it to the vmdk, but I couldnt get it to see it… Open to suggestions..

By: Simon Seagrave

Simon Seagrave — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:31:09 +0000

Hi Tom,

Hmm, that sounds strange indeed. Anything showing in your ESX/ESXi logs at all?

It sounds like you’ve already tried recreating a new VM with same resource attributes and then pointed the primary VMDK file to your existing VMDK file (whose VMX file is missing) – did I read this right?

Cheers,

Simon

Cheers,

Simon

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:57:09 +0000

Thank you as this saved me a ton of time in getting this machine back up quickly!

By: Tom Berchenbriter

Tom Berchenbriter — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:01:59 +0000

I too have the same issue, vmx file disapeared… has no logs like the other vms, and cannot attach vmdk file to a new vm… What causes this?? This is awful