This can cause problems when starting the guest.įor safety, answer 'No' and click 'Answer'. The new hard drive appears and we can click on : Save.Įxcept that when you try to start your virtual machine, VMware ESXi will tell you that the 'Win 10 v2004_1.vmdk' and 'Win 10 v2004_2.vmdk' virtual disks have the same UUID. We select the 'Win 10 v2004_2.vmdk' file which is a copy of the 'Win 10 v2004_1.vmdk' virtual hard disk. We therefore try to also add this copy to the same virtual machine by clicking on : Add hard disk -> Existing hard disk.
Then, we used a few Linux and VMware commands to create a carbon copy of this virtual hard drive. To verify the previously mentioned problem, we created a virtual hard drive which we then initialized from the guest operating system. Error displayed when 2 virtual disks have the same identifier (UUID) Hard disks visible in the virtual machineġ.Change the signature of a hard drive on Windows.Offline virtual hard disk in a Windows virtual machine.Change the unique identifier (UUID) of the virtual hard disk.Error displayed when 2 virtual disks have the same identifier (UUID).Indeed, in this case, the virtual machine will not start, because the unique identifier (UUID) of these is identical. When you create a copy of a virtual hard disk, you can't link it to the same virtual machine as the original one.
