Hi All,
I am trying to add a physical disk to a VM running in VMware Workstation 14.1.3 and am failing. I get a number of different errors issues when doing this. KBs and Google seem a little laxed on things to try.
The physical disk is just a basic SATA HD connected via SATA. The guest OS is MAC OSX 10.14. The reason for me doing this is the Disk has an MAC-OSX partition on it and I would like to read stuff off it. This has worked in the past.
Scenario 1:
When I hot add the physical disk to the VM i get the following error message.
And this in the logs.
2018-08-28T13:25:24.650+10:00| vmx| I125: HotAdd: Adding rawDisk with mode 'persistent' to sata0:2
2018-08-28T13:25:24.651+10:00| vmx| I125: DISK: OPEN sata0:2 'E:\macOS 10.14\macOS 10.14.vmdk' persistent R[]
2018-08-28T13:25:24.669+10:00| vmx| I125: AIOWIN32C: Failed to open '\\?\ide#diskwdc_wd6002ffwx-68tz4n0__________________83.h0a83#5&ca12858&0&0.0.0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}' : Insufficient permission to access the file (458755).
2018-08-28T13:25:24.669+10:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-DEVCRW: failed to open the device: \\?\ide#diskwdc_wd6002ffwx-68tz4n0__________________83.h0a83#5&ca12858&0&0.0.0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
2018-08-28T13:25:24.669+10:00| vmx| I125: DeviceCreateHost_UniqueIDToDiskDevice: Failed to get the drive number for \\?\ide#diskwdc_wd6002ffwx-68tz4n0__________________83.h0a83#5&ca12858&0&0.0.0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
2018-08-28T13:25:24.669+10:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-FLAT : Failed to convert UUID path \\?\ide#diskwdc_wd6002ffwx-68tz4n0__________________83.h0a83#5&ca12858&0&0.0.0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} to \\.\PhysicalDriveX format
2018-08-28T13:25:24.669+10:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-FLAT : FlatExtentParseExtentLine: Failed to convert UUID path to \\.\PhysicalDriveX format
2018-08-28T13:25:24.669+10:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-FLAT : FlatExtentOpen: FlatExtentParseExtentLine failed: extentLine ""\\.\PhysicalDrive0" 0 partitionUUID \\?\ide#diskwdc_wd6002ffwx-68tz4n0__________________83.h0a83#5&ca12858&0&0.0.0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}", descBasePath "E:\macOS 10.14": The file specified is not a virtual disk.
2018-08-28T13:25:24.669+10:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-FLAT : ""\\.\PhysicalDrive0" 0 partitionUUID \\?\ide#diskwdc_wd6002ffwx-68tz4n0__________________83.h0a83#5&ca12858&0&0.0.0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}" : failed to parse (15😞 .
2018-08-28T13:25:24.670+10:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-LINK : "E:\macOS 10.14\macOS 10.14.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
2018-08-28T13:25:24.670+10:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-CHAIN : "E:\macOS 10.14\macOS 10.14.vmdk" : failed to open (The file specified is not a virtual disk).
2018-08-28T13:25:24.670+10:00| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open 'E:\macOS 10.14\macOS 10.14.vmdk' with flags 0xa The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).
2018-08-28T13:25:24.670+10:00| vmx| I125: DISK: Cannot open disk 'E:\macOS 10.14\macOS 10.14.vmdk': The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).
Scenario 2:
When i add the disk with the VM turned off it allows the adding however the Guest does not post. I do not see the VMware logo and it just hangs at a black screen.
Any ideas, thoughts, suggestion would be appreciated.
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