Vmware file sytem not found

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run VMFS on mounted partitions with info option
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expect to see disk info but seeing error saying No Vmware file system detected

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Using r95 on Puppy Linux

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by seunkola...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2012 at 5:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Experiencing this same issue. The datastore is VMFS-5, OS is Server 2008 R2 Ent.

Original comment by 7gre...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2012 at 4:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

even I am Experiencing this same issue. The datastore is VMFS-5, OS is Server 
2008 R2 Ent.

Original comment by gulzar.s...@gmail.com on 31 May 2013 at 9:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Same issue, datastore is VMFS-5 on Windows 7

Original comment by cont...@jadon.me on 18 Oct 2013 at 10:12

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

I'm having the same issue using: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
tried:
1x 6.4TB VMFS (v5.58)
6x 1TB VMFS (v3.0)

Both fail with same error:
c:\vmfs_r95>java -jar fvmfs.jar \\.\PhysicalDrive3 info
VMFSTools (C) by fluid Operations (v0.9.8.18 r95 / 2010-01-25_15-57-35) 
http://www.fluidops.com

Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: \\.\PhysicalDrive3 
(The system cannot find the file specified)
        at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.RandomIOAccess.<init>(RandomIOAccess.java:29)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver.openSingleVolume(VMFSDriver.java:1714)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver.openVolume(VMFSDriver.java:1701)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSTools.getVMFSDriver(VMFSTools.java:185)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSTools.cli(VMFSTools.java:224)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSTools.main(VMFSTools.java:492)

I windows Disk Management; this is Disk ID 2 (including counting from zero). I 
know this is the correct disk.

Any suggestions?

Original comment by ad...@jacksonfamily.me on 23 Dec 2013 at 2:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

I'm also getting this error.  Anyone found a solution yet??

Original comment by dfawcet...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2014 at 7:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

I've a VMFS partition in a multi partitioned Disk as:

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    System            4064 KB    32 KB
  Partition 4    Primary            249 MB  4112 KB
  Partition 5    Primary            249 MB   254 MB
  Partition 6    Unknown            109 MB   504 MB
  Partition 7    Primary            285 MB   614 MB
  Partition 8    Unknown           2560 MB   900 MB
  Partition 2    Primary           4095 MB  3460 MB
  Partition 3    Unknown            458 GB  7555 MB

*where Partition 3 is VMFS

Following exceptions thrown by the command:

C:\VMFS>"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_25\bin\java.exe" -jar c:\vmfs\fvmfs.jar 
\\.\PhysicalDrive1 info
VMFSTools (C) by fluid Operations (v0.9.8.18 r95 / 2010-01-25_15-57-35)
http://www.fluidops.com

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: java.lang.Exception: No VMware 
File System detected
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver$ExtentInfo.<init>(VMFSDriver.java:662)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver.setVolumeIOAccess(VMFSDriver.java:1751)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver.openSingleVolume(VMFSDriver.java:1714)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver.openVolume(VMFSDriver.java:1701)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSTools.getVMFSDriver(VMFSTools.java:185)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSTools.cli(VMFSTools.java:224)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSTools.main(VMFSTools.java:492)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: No VMware File System detected
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver$ExtentInfo.readVmfsLvmInfo(VMFSDriver.java:717)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver$ExtentInfo.readVmfsLvmInfo(VMFSDriver.java:676)
        at com.fluidops.tools.vmfs.VMFSDriver$ExtentInfo.<init>(VMFSDriver.java:657)
        ... 6 more

C:\VMFS>

Advice please!

Original comment by msalmanm...@gmail.com on 24 Oct 2014 at 2:21

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