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Jay_De_Leo_3956
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Sep 01, 2010

VMware Workstation File Size Error

Greetings,     When trying to power up the Big-IP LTM VE with VMware Workstation 7.1 on WinXP SP3, I get the following error:     "VMware Workstation cannot open one of the virtual disks n...
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qe_102628
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Sep 01, 2010
try chucking this into the .vmx and booting it - you might be encountering an overhead check issue that VMware Workstation performs on boot of a VM:

 

 

diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck= "false"

 

 

 

 

If you want it easier, VMware Fusion works a lot better - you won't have to jump through so many layers of virtualization.

 

 

e.g. Mac OS -> VMware Fusion -> BIG-IP

 

versus Mac OS -> Parallels -> XP -> VMware -> BIG-IP.

 

 

BIG-IP VE is not supported on Fusion but a fair number of people have had success with it.