I have an Ubuntu 15.04 guest OS running in VMware Player running in a Windows 8.1 host OS. Of late I used VMware Player's "Suspend" feature to resume my work later on, however every time I try to restore the suspended state, I get a graphics incompatibility issue because of which the suspended state could not be restored back.
Meanwhile I found that the Ubuntu guest OS takes too much time to boot (I'm not sure if VMware Player takes too much time to load the OS or if it is a problem with the booting) and that multiple .vmdk files have been created as follows:
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s010.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s011.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s012.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s013.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s014.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s015.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s016.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s017.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s018.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s019.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s020.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s021.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s022.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s023.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s024.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s026.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s001.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s002.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s003.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s004.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s005.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s006.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s007.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s008.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s009.vmdk
along with other VMware files:
vmware-0.log
vmware-1.log
vprintproxy.log
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-s025.vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit).nvram
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit).vmdk
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit).vmsd
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit).vmx
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit).vmxf
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-8843f757.vmem
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit)-8843f757.vmss
vmware.log
All the vmdk files whenever I boot into the OS and the removal of any one vmdk file results in the following error:
Error while powering on: Unable to open file "G:\Ubuntu_15.04-64bit\64bit\Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid (64bit).vmdk":
The system cannot find the file specified.
The entire folder occupies a size of upto 30GB and each of these files occupies a disk space of around 1 GB.
For what reason are these multiple vmdk files created?
What does the "s0xx" suffix in the vmdk files correspond to?
Is there a way to reduce the size of the system by removing the unnecessary vmdk files? The size of the working directory (G:\Ubuntu_15.04-64bit\64bit) keeps growing.