store the VM inventory and data is not accessible

I am running VMware Server 2.0.2.  My host computer is a laptop running Windows XP SP3.  My comment system is Windows 2008 SR2.  The guest system physically resides on a hard drive USB, (I:\virtual machines\).

I put in 'I:\virtual machines\' place as a store of data and then added the virtual machine to VMware Infrastructure Web Access inventory.  The machine starts, runs, etc.  If I stop and restart the host, connect the USB hard disk, and then open VMware Infrastructure Web Access, the virtual computer if displays grayed, and instead of the name it says: "unknown (Inaccessible).  To use my VM, I must remove from the inventory, then remove the data store and then add everything back.

No idea why this is happening and how I can configure things so I don't have to go through this ritual every time?

It's my first experience with VMware, so my apologies if there is more information to provide.

Your problem is because VMware services start automatically at startup and the USB key is not present, the virtual machines defined in this data store is marked as missing. This isn't really a bug as such,

You could try to define VMware services to manual start and start them, via a script if you prefer using 'net start' or 'sc start', necessary or stop and restart once the USB is connected. You might also have a script that uses vmrun to unsubscribe and re - register particularly affected VMs.

Another approach would be to have all files for the virtual machine on the hard drive of your laptop, in the store default data or any other data store on C:, with the exception of the hard (s), since this will be the greatest, and as long as the virtual machine is not set to autostart on startup, this could work since I hope he'll only try and find the file in the data store (potentially missing) on the USB when you start the virtual machine, not when the host boots.

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