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Cannot start antlet from imported VMDK
I created a new template from a VMDK from VMWare. It uses SATA controller. I then created a new antlet from that template and then tried to start the antlet. I get this message:
internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2019-12-31T01:12:22.261572Z qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/antlets/Quickbooks/QuickBooks.vmdk,format=vmdk,if=none,id=drive-sata0-0-0: Could not open '/antlets/Quickbooks/QuickBooks-flat.vmdk': No such file or directory
Any advice would be appreciated. I have several more VM's I would like to import.
Oh...wait...This is a Windows 8 VM. This version of Windows may not be supported?
I assume the antlet's name is 'Quickbooks' (only Q capitalized)?
Does that file /antlets/Quickbooks/QuickBooks.vmdk exist?
Or could it be in /antlets/Quickbooks/antsle:volume/QuickBooks.vmdk
The case matters, so if the path is /antlets/QuickBooks/... that would be different than /antlets/Quickbooks
Windows 8 should work (I have 2 Windows 7 antlets)
In the error message it references a file named QuickBooks-flat.vmdk. That does not exist. Am I doing something wrong?
Here was my process:
- Copy QuickBooks.vmdk from VMWare server to local machine.
- Create new template in Antman by dragging the vmdk onto the web page in the area noted.
- Create a new Antlet from that template.
- Start up the new Antlet...get the error.
Oh I missed that part in the message.
From the antsle terminal, if you type:
cd /antlets/Quickbooks
ls -l
(that's ell ess dash ell)
Does it show QuickBooks.vmdk or QuickBooks-flat.vmdk ?
If it shows QuickBooks.vmdk, try:
mv QuickBooks.vmdk QuickBooks-flat.vmdk
This will rename the file to match what the antsle is looking for.
Then maybe it will start?
The file on the Antsle is QuickBooks.vmdk.
When I copied the QuickBooks.vmdk from the VMWare server, 627 bytes were copied. The actual vmdk on the server is 150GB!
I made a copy of the file on the VMWare server. It created a QuickBooks-flat.vmdk which was the actual size. I am now downloading that from the VMWare server and then going to copy it to the folder for the Antlet on the Antsle. Then I'll start it. But it is taking a LONG time to copy the file around to different servers.
I guess there is probably a way to copy directly from the VMWare server to the Antsle?
Well...that did not work either. Now trying to create a template from the larger QuickBooks-flat.vmdx.
This page in the docs talks about using a VMDK file as a virtual drive:
There are a lot of broken links to the Antsle documentation, that above is one...
Since they re-did the Docs, the new link is: