Today I could not start my VMware image any more, it started restoring virtual machine state and hung when 1/3 of the progress bar was completed. Not only did the VMware player hang but also all other programs on my computer. All shortcuts like (alt + F4) and (ctrl + alt + del) gave me no response as well, to get out of this situation I needed to hold down the power on/off button and restart my machine.
I looked at some documentation for the VMware player and found the solution, very easy to fix and I thought that I should share this with you.
I am using the VMware player 2.5.2, you can download it from VMware player download page (free version).
Go to the folder where you keep your image and delete the .vmss (VMware suspended virtual machine state) file. Now you can restart your image and everything should work fine. By deleting the .vmss file you will lose all unsaved data from your previous session.
I know why this happened to my image: I manually restarted my machine while the image was running. This lead to a corrupted virtual machine state and therefore it hung. Why the rest of my computer hangs when this happens I don’t know (running Vista).
To avoid this from happening always shut down your image the proper way before restarting/turning off your computer.
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You saved my day buddy
Mine too
Thank you!
I’m glad that I could help
Thank you, you saved my lot of work !!
Thank you very much… a quick and easy fix for something that was preventing me using some urgently needed software.
THANKS! I’ve tried deleting the .lck files but didn’t know about the suspend files thank you a lot!
No problem Zach
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