[IWE] Hey Thane (or other VMWare person)

[Barry Roomberg]

Backup completed, removed locks, booted fine.
Phew.

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 11:19, Thane Walkup wrote:
> 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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