Comments on: VMware Workstation – “Cannot open one of the virtual disks needed by this VM because it is larger that the maximum size supported by the host file system”

By: NewMount

NewMount — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:59:54 +0000

Hi Kiwi Si,

The extra line in the vmx file to ignore file size worked fine.
Thanks!

Regards,

NewMount

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:01:09 +0000

Hi Rizwan,

Hmmm, that is strange. I don’t know why this would do this – I assume you are talking about lost data on the VM you are running via VMware Workstation.

Did you get to the bottom of what caused this data loss?

Cheers,

Simon

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:42:08 +0000

Hi, I came across the same problem. I added diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck= “FALSE” to vmx file. The system booted fine. But now I ended up with lost data to MAy09 Today is 16Dec09.

Can you explain if it due to this change.

Regards,
Rizwan

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:57:19 +0000

Hi Ahmad,

Thanks for reading TechHead – glad this helped you solve the problem.

All the best,

Simon

By: Ahmad Osman

Ahmad Osman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:01:01 +0000

Hi Kiwi Si,

Thanks you a lot for your article, it really helps me, the error msg, and the line needed to be edited guided me to solve the issue.

YOUR HELP is SIMPLY PERFECT

Ahmad

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:05:32 +0000

Hi Wil,

Thanks for the useful tip – that will definitely come in useful to others also.

Cheers,

Simon