[RLUG] VMWare question

[Dennis Bagley]

Well I solved the symptoms of the problem and have the guest OS working
again.  I just reverted to a snapshot - and I was able to get back in.

However, I would still like to understand the message better and know
another alternative to the "Snapshot" solution, if anyone knows one.

Thanks


Dennis












ORIGINAL MESSAGE


Need some help please.

Managed to lock up my system somehow when I had to change batteries on
my wireless mouse.  Required a hard boot.

When I attempted to bring up my guest OS in VMWare, I got the following
error message.

"Cannot open the disk '/home/dennis/Win2KPro/Win2KPro-000001.vmdk' or
one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: Failed to lock the file."

I have tried deleting the Win2KPro.vmx.WRITELOCK file   AND re-running
the vmware-config.pl.  NO change - same results.

Help!!! - I need to get back into some files.!

Thanks


Dennis

"A computer is merely a tool that allows us to make larger mistakes,
more often and in a shorter period of time."    Donald Freeman
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