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One of the new features of vmware 5.0 is be able to clone a new copy of a virtual machine from another. It especially allows you to link one clone to another drastically reducing hard-drive space required for the clones...
I cant get it to work over a network share with Archlinux.
I have a server with a large chunk of storage space. Then I have a workstation with vmware installed. (vmware is also installed and used on the server, but thats neither here nor there).
I have the server share mounted to my local workstation. I have verified that I can read and write from the remote folder, including creating new files.
When I use vmware to open an existing virtual machine, I can browse thru the folders to pick the virtual machine, but when I try to open it, I get this error:
Unable to open "/home/cjw/mnt/vm/common/Win2000-Server/Windows 2000 Server.vmx": Failed to lock the file..I've posted to the vmware forum, but no-one there seemed to have ever seen the problem before. So I tried it on a different archlinux installation... same error.
I even wrote a little C program to test that I can flock() files on the share, and it was able to do so.
It works under windows, so I installed redhat 8.0 on a spare machine and it works (to my surprise) there too.
So now I am wondering, can it be an archlinux issue? My sytems are pretty much up to date. I am at a loss and tried everything I can think of. Anyone got any ideas?
Does anyone else using vmware have this same problem?
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Found a solution, although I dont quite understand it.
Mounting the remote share with cifs instead of smbfs allows me to at least see the virtual machine. I was at least able to clone the virtual machine. It didnt work quite right, but I think one of my paths was still pointing to something incorrect.
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