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VMware Workstation Unrecoverable Error: (vmx) NOT_IMPLEMENTED

Monday, June 15, 2009

I RDP’d to my workstation and attempted to start a virtual machine in VMware Workstation 6.5.2. However, part of the way through the boot process VMware would pop up the following error:
Looking at the log file I would see
NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-156735/bora/vmx/main/pollVMX.c:3651
It didn’t matter whether I was trying to start a Windows or a Linux virtual machine, [...]

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Where are VMware Infrastructure 3.5 snapshots stored?

Monday, December 15, 2008

When you create a snapshot in VMware Instrastructure (formerly ESX), the server stops updating the .vmdk files. Instead it creates a delta file for each .vmdk file. Any writes are written to the delta file rather than the .vmdk file.
This has a few implications:

The amount of disk space used will increase (a delta can theoretically [...]

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