[IWE] Hey Thane (or other VMWare person)

[Thane Walkup]

Honestly, I have no idea.  Make backups, (which you are already doing) 
then proceed from there.

Barry Roomberg wrote:
> My Linux box that hosts several VMWare windows instances had the power cord 
> yanked.
>
> One of the VMWare instances refuses to boot, telling me:
> ----------------------------
> Cannot open the disk '/LONG PATH TO/Mirus_XP-000001.vmdk' or one of the 
> snapshot disks it depends on.
> Reason: Failed to lock file.
> ----------------------------
> In that directory there are a bunch of files that look like lock files, ie:
>
> 564d20db-d284-5100-2815-cd750bbed046.vmem.WRITELOCK
> Mirus_XP-000001.vmdk.WRITELOCK
> Mirus_XP.vmdk.READLOCK
>
> Should I be able to merely delete them and start up?
>
> I'm currently backing the dir up before changing anything.
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