Thursday, February 13, 2014

The operation Change properties of virtual machine is not permitted on a virtual machine that has shared virtual hard disks

I was trying to remove the shared virtual hard drive from the VM

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and it was failing with error

Error (23317)

The operation Change properties of virtual machine is not permitted on a virtual machine that has shared virtual hard disks.

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The operation Change properties of virtual machine is not permitted on a virtual machine that has shared virtual hard disks

First try removing harddisk but when it ask save the config cancel and click on generate script

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Script will come with many lines but focus on this

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Add force to the line

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