Oh my goodness, sighs. You know I really am a good tech. If that had
been some one else's vm, I would have tried opening it manually first
thing, really.
Fine, so now we have this error, which is different from the one I was
originally getting.
The upshot of the error is that I can't open windows xp
professional.vmdk because of insufficient permition. The permitions
obviously got changed when I moved it. Will it work if I just hit
command I on the virtual machine object in finder and set everything
to full permition? I'd go ahead and do it, but I've had enough
melladrama for one day.
Thanks,
Erik
On 17-Apr-08, at 7:43 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi Erik
Try opening it with command+o and browsing to it. If it opens it
will put it back in the list. If VMWare believes it is already in
use, you may need to remove the lock file--if this is the case go
into terminal and cd into your virtual machine. Remove any filename
with the extension of .lck.
hth
On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:12 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi friends.
This morning my windows virtual machine crashed and when I
restarted the computer fusion wouldn't load the vm because it
thought the machine was already in use, and it wouldn't let me
retake ownership. Well I stupidly moved the whole vm to trash and
now that I brought it back, it's not in the list. Is there a way
to restore the vm? At this point I'd be grateful just to get my
original error back.
When I first did this I was practicly jumping up and down with rage
and discust with myself. Now I realise it's only a minor
disaster. When I set up my vm, I changed my my documents folder to
the documents folder of my mac os home folder. That means all my
backups, except for the application data, IE email, bookmarks, and
some registration keys, are absolutely gone. The biggest problem
from a practical stand-point is that I don't have my windows XP
disc, or any of the other cd's for the software I need to run under
windows to get a fresh system up and running.
Is there any way to get fusion to see my old vm again?
Thanks,
Erik
