VMware issue after Crysis crash

aueddonline

I was playing crysis while a ZM of Suse was running and the game crashed now after a reboot I get this error when trying to open the VM


Cannot open the disk 'V:\VirtualMachines\Linux\SUSE Linux 64-bit.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: Failed to lock the file



any ideas of how to fix this? or will I have to reinstall and start again?

dynamik

Looks like all you have to do is delete the .writelock file in the vmdk dir. It just didn't shut down right.

Edit: On mine, it creates a <vmdk>.lck directory. It might vary between versions.

aueddonline

dynamik wrote:

Looks like all you have to do is delete the .writelock file in the vmdk dir. It just didn't shut down right.

Edit: On mine, it creates a <vmdk>.lck directory. It might vary between versions.

And just like that the balance of life is restored cheers dynamik