VMware VMDK: Failed to lock the file

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1. BT 27 September 2008, 21:34

   Thanks! Worked for me.

   --BT

2. tex 29 September 2008, 22:57

   I virtualized a fisical machine but when i tried to open on workstation i got the same error: failed to lock the file. So i removed the 2 folders .lck but when starting again the machine i get this error: Cannot connect virtual device ide1:1. No corresponding device is available on the host.
   It tries to open but as soon as windows screen appears i get a blu screen! i tried to map the drive to z as you suggested but i get the same error.
   Can you helpme please. thanks

3. Ragu 22 November 2008, 16:15

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4. kotwun10 22 November 2008, 18:07

   Works! Great Tip

5. Ngo viet yen 1 December 2008, 10:24

   Wow i did it. Great thanks.

6. Simon 4 December 2008, 14:04

   Worked for me as well!
   thanx

7. anonymous 30 December 2008, 13:33

   Thanks so much for sharing this with us. :)

8. John 13 January 2009, 00:19

   Yep ty, worked 4 me.

9. boby2k 19 January 2009, 07:18

   tks a lot

10. nye 23 February 2009, 16:18

    Very very thanks!

11. Captain Solo 26 February 2009, 17:07

    I had a similar problem after a power outage. In /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/ there are 2 folders which end in .lck. Deleting both of these solved my problem

12. Me 2 March 2009, 08:14

    Thanks worked for me as well and I was running Ubuntu on VM not windows!

13. Tarcio 6 March 2009, 15:40

    Worked. Thanks.

14. Dopu 11 March 2009, 13:29

    Worked. Thanks.

15. belson 18 March 2009, 14:23

    Thanks... it worked

16. P4W3R 26 March 2009, 14:29

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17. carlo 9 April 2009, 02:52

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18. Gilbert M Hale 26 April 2009, 21:21

    Renaming the .lck files (safer than deleting until I verified it would work ) worked perfectly for me. I am running VMware Server 2 under an Ubuntu Server v-8.04 64 bit platform, Dell Precision T3400 8Gb RAM machine.

    I had been running several VMware Workstation machines under XP Pro with VMware Workstation v-6.5 with a Dell Vostro 220 4Gb RAM machine, and wanted to migrate the virtual machines to the VMWare Server 2 for better load balancing, and on a higher RAM machine for greater concurrent virtual machine density. Imagine my surprise when the first imported machine worked great. The others did not, until I renamed the .lck files. Your post saved me hours of setting up new virtual machines.

    Thank You!

    Gil

19. ruch 12 May 2009, 11:04

    Wow, thanks a lot, u saved so much of my time :D

20. leezo 13 May 2009, 19:24

    Thanks a million that worked :)

21. ugo montorsi 14 May 2009, 19:30

    ho lo stesso problema ho fatto le seguenti prove:
    ho la vmware server con windows 2003 server su server linux red hat 5 enterprise edition
    1: cliccando su start mi dà l'errore:
    Unable to Power On virtual machine with “A General System error occurred: Internal error”
    2: ps -eaf|grep vmware
    root 26375 19955
    Message from hyperion.sin.it: Cannot open the disk '/u03/VMachine/W2k3PLA/W2k3PLA.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Failed to lock the file.
    qual'è il pid è 26375 o 19955
    3: devo fare kill 26375 o kill 19955
    e riavviare la virtual machine?
    aspetto una mail di risposta.
    grazie cordiali saluti
    dott. ugo montorsi

22. Brian 28 May 2009, 17:35

    Thanks a million... worked for me and saved my VM!

23. Pallav 2 June 2009, 13:12

    Cheers, Works Like A Beauty

24. mj 8 June 2009, 09:24

    thanks

25. roly 19 June 2009, 00:20

    gracias fiera me sirvio mucho ya lo daba por muerto mi maquina virtual

26. pk 27 June 2009, 11:03

    Thanks dude. It worked.........

27. Jeff 9 July 2009, 15:32

    Awesome. You are my hero.

28. Babu 22 July 2009, 14:03

    Excellent!!!!! It works for us, thankyou very much!

29. Prasanjit 28 July 2009, 10:17

    Thanks it worked great for me

30. Jokohanho 3 August 2009, 10:58

    Thanks. It worked for me aswell!

31. Rich 6 August 2009, 14:46

    Great, worked perfectly! Cheers!

32. Biliballa 21 August 2009, 12:55

    Nice! It worked!

33. Niels Brinch 27 August 2009, 09:22

    Just wanted to add my name to the long list of people who solved their problem from this tip. Thanks.

34. dom 2 September 2009, 15:51

    thanks... worked for me too. good job.

35. Mehr 3 September 2009, 10:32

    Thanks a bunch!!....You saved so much of my time!

36. philip 3 September 2009, 13:18

    Thanks!!

37. Prashant 7 September 2009, 16:54

    thanks a lot ... it really saved a lot of time .it was great help .

38. totad 21 September 2009, 09:13

    thanks it worked

39. Klaus 10 October 2009, 11:55

    Thanks, great information, solved my issue :-)

40. Rherrera 13 October 2009, 18:55

    muy bien, muchas gracias. Thanks.

41. beny 20 October 2009, 18:48

    dzieki wszytko dział!
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42. Paul 22 October 2009, 12:08

    I'd just like to add my thanks too! I had my heart in my mouth when I thought I'd possible lost yesterdays development work but everything is running again. Thanks!

43. Ahasan Kabir 3 November 2009, 18:28

    Thanks a lot. It is grate solution.
    When i upgrade from VMServer 1.8 to VMWare Server 2.0, I can't open my os. I am confuse what i can do, after that i try to find the solution. From this site i get solution. Just i delete the two lock the from vm directory as per recommendation. Thanks a lot.

44. Rigo 7 November 2009, 03:30

    Excelente!!!

45. Oberon 13 November 2009, 13:57

    I ran into the same problem when I moved from VMWare server to VMWare Workstation. Your solution worked for me too. Thanks for sharing!

46. Ced 14 December 2009, 01:47

    The error occurs most of the times because VMware finds a lock directory in the same directory as the VHD.
    The simple solution is to remove this directory (you'll recognize it by the extension '.lck')
    The error is most likely caused by a wrong shutdown of VMware (either it crashed, or your PC crashed, or you just broke it. whatever applies :P )

    Happy virtualizing~

47. Bryan 28 December 2009, 20:19

    Exactly what I needed. Thanks a ton :)

48. Roderick 29 December 2009, 00:46

    Excellent! That is all i need to know! Worked great.

49. Zembold 29 December 2009, 16:49

    Thanks! ;)

50. johnkmx 5 January 2010, 21:08

    Perfect. Thanks for sharing.

51. futureOpen 19 January 2010, 02:53

    thanks....it worked

52. Aswin 16 February 2010, 22:37

    Thank u so much it worked !!!!

53. dani 28 February 2010, 18:07

    thanks

54. Rob 6 March 2010, 18:09

    I am not a vmware techie and know enough to be dangerous...have the lock file situation and understand the fix but do no know how to get to the folders\files on the vm to delete them. Any help greatly appreciated.

55. Ismael 11 March 2010, 14:36

    Thanks, saved my bacon. Otherwise I would have to rebuild the vm's.

56. Sangy 19 March 2010, 18:54

    Thanks...!! it works..but I could not understand why it was happened ?

57. leo 2 April 2010, 13:58

    thanks a lot you saved my filelife :D

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    Thanks a lot pal! That worked brilliant

59. Oscar GF 13 April 2010, 01:11

    Funcionó! Gracias!
    It worked! Thanks!

60. Ali Abooali 27 April 2010, 08:04

    Excellent!!!! .... Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

61. Sam 10 May 2010, 21:49

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62. alban YANDZI 17 May 2010, 15:28

    thanks for your help my server is working now.

63. Maher 31 May 2010, 08:43

    if it doesn't work rename the disk

64. bangjon 1 June 2010, 14:45

    okay it's work. with only remove .lck folder. thanks brother

65. rama\ 5 June 2010, 15:04

    Thank u so much it worked !!!!

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69. Sean Taylor 28 June 2010, 23:49

    Thank you very much. I have just deleted the .lck folders and I could power on my Virtual Machine. Do you know why this situation could happened?

70. Duncan 2 July 2010, 16:44

    Thank you very well written guide solved the problem in seconds (my computer had crashed whilst the VM was running).

71. Gerhard 17 July 2010, 08:22

    Saved my day! Thanks

72. darkskull 22 July 2010, 09:44

    YEAH!!! Work fine!!! Thanks

73. alex 22 July 2010, 21:18

    I have deleted the .lck folder and now it still would not work it shows another error (Cannot open the disk '..-..') Reason: The specified virtual disk needs repair. and when i restore those folders back it shows me the first error message ( Failed to lock the file.)

    and it doesn't let me to change the drive Letter i believe due to the error

74. haris 27 July 2010, 21:05

    thanks

75. Sandeep 26 August 2010, 10:47

    it worked. thanks.

76. Bogdan 15 September 2010, 23:10

    It solved my problem.
    Thank you!

77. Subu 17 September 2010, 16:47

    Nice, worked just as normal. Thanks

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    Worked. Thanks.

79. fahad 26 September 2010, 12:54

    thanks a lot

80. Srinivas 12 October 2010, 12:50

    Thank you so much , It worked for me.

81. andre 14 October 2010, 12:52

    Thanks your a life saver.

82. Alin 19 October 2010, 21:33

    
    bangjon:
    
    okay it’s work. with only remove .lck folder. thanks brother

    THANX!!!
    I'm a newbie in VMware but that think worked smooth !

83. Name (required) 20 October 2010, 01:19

    I'd like to thnk you lot, my server it work now.
    So good

84. dfxmaster 28 October 2010, 20:30

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85. ES 9 November 2010, 15:27

    Thanks. It worked for me! ;)

86. ES 9 November 2010, 17:09

    What happened was that my PC was abruptly shut down because of a power surge, so the VMware didn't have time to unlock the file.
    And by deleting those files, the VMware will automatically create new ones to supress the old deleted ones.
    Everything should be OK like old files and configurations you had prior to the incident.

87. sutasu 15 November 2010, 13:42

    Thank you very much! I works :)

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    tks.

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95. Name (required) 4 January 2011, 01:13

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     WOW This saved me from recreating the vm i thought i had lost.. thanks a bunch!! :D, although i have to ask.. what are the folders with the .lck for anyways? and is there any effect in the long run if they are removed?

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130. A.Jesin 30 July 2011, 08:43

     My physical machine was unresponsive and I had to reset it. After that when I tried opening the Virtual Machine I was receiving the same error, but just deleting the *.ick folders solved the problem thanks a lot.

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     If you have a 2nd partition (HDD) on your VW you might also have a .lck file loccated there. In this instance you will need to delete the .lck file in both locations

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