![]() Sometimes locks cannot be released because of other handler still wants to do something with files. The purpose of locking is to prevent changes of concurent vm files and FS. WARNING: World: VM xxxx: xxx: Failed to initialize swap file In the /var/log/vmkernel log file, you see entries similar to: WARNING: World: VM xxxx: xxx: Failed to open swap file : Lock was not free Unable to access Virtual machine configuration Unable to access a file since it is locked You will see one of these err0rz: Failed to add disk scsi0:1. Actually this is not a big or major err0r in vmWare environment, but can be a quite pain in the ass if you don’t have any DSR site enabled.įirst of all you need to try to power on the vm. There are couple of methods how you could fix this…. Probably a third party appliance or software made a lock on your stored in datastore *.vmdk files creating -delta ones. IF you have seen this err0r, you’re somehow trully fucked-up.
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