Every VMware administrator knows that sinking feeling. You try to power on a critical virtual machine, and instead of the familiar boot sequence, you are greeted with a cryptic error:
cat > vmname.vmdk << EOF # Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=fffffffe parentCID=ffffffff createType="monolithicFlat" how to fix flat vmdk
Use vmkfstools to clone the flat VMDK to a new healthy one: Every VMware administrator knows that sinking feeling
Add the flat file as a secondary hard disk to a working Windows/Linux VM. how to fix flat vmdk