Symptoms:
- Unable to power on a cloned VM
- You see the error:
Error: File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed.
- In the vmware.log file, you see similar to:
2020-12-22T19:22:14.715Z| vmx| I125+ File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed
2020-12-22T19:22:14.715Z| vmx| I125+ Failed to lock the file 2020-12-22T19:22:14.715Z| vmx| I125+ Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx/originalVMname/originalVMdisk.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
2020-12-22T19:22:14.715Z| vmx| I125+ Module 'Disk' power on failed.
2020-12-22T19:22:14.715Z| vmx| I125+ Failed to start the virtual machine.
- The disk which cannot be opened is the original VM disk not the cloned VM disk.
- The VM configuration file (.vmx) is pointing to the original VM disk. Can also be checked in the VM setting from vCenter or ESXi UI.