Hi Erik
Actually, if the permissions on the vmdk got changed, likely every
other file also go tchanged. But yes, restoring the perms through the
finder should do the trick, though command-line lover that I am I'd
probably just do something like this in terminal:
chown -R erik:staff WindowsXP.vmwarevm
Replace Erik and Staff with what your user and group are,, and
WindowsXP.vmwarevm with the folder of your VM. Then fire it up and it
should work.
hth
On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:11 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
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
