Recover Snapshots after broken vmx file was restored

[tamaris]

I'm running a Win7x64 Machine (Host and guest) with Workstation 7 and I ran into a problem after a shutdown failed... after my host system was rebooted I couldn't boot my guest OS as the vmx file was broken.

I created a new Virtual machine and added the original virtual disk (vmdk) and could start the vm again. It was only after the reboot when I realized that I revertet to the original state of the VM and all the changes I stored in snapshots were gone.

So I tried to do the same steps again and instead of using the original vmdk I tried to use the one from the latest snaphot. But this wasn't possible (The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created)

Is there anything I can do to fix this? the parent disk wasn't changed at all but I assume booting the system created new logs etc...

[continuum]

Hi
recreating a vmx-file the way you did it is not the recommended way.
Please stop using this VM and attach all vmware.logs

[tamaris]

Thanks for you reply,

I've attached the log files in the zip. I haven't done anything else with the VM than booting and shutdown yet...

Attachment(s)

Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation.zip   158 KB 1 version

[continuum]

good
please download the dsfok tools from here
http://sanbarrow.com/files/dsfok.zip
extract it and put dsfo.exe and dsfi.exe into the directory with the vmdks

then run this batch:

dsfo.exe "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation-000004.vmdk" 512 1024    "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation-000004.bin"
dsfo.exe "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation-000003.vmdk" 512 1024    "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation-000003.bin"
dsfo.exe "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation-000001.vmdk" 512 1024    "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation-000001.bin"
dsfo.exe "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation.vmdk"        512 1024    "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation.bin"    

put all bin files into an archive and attach it

[tamaris]

Here they are, thanks for the help

Attachment(s)

Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation.zip   160 KB 1 version

[continuum]

please download the attached zip
extract it and replace "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation.bin"

then run the cmd

dsfi.exe "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation.vmdk"        512 1024    "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation.bin"   

please note the small change in the cmd !!!!

when that is done assign the file "Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation-000004.vmdk" to your VM or just use the attached vmx-file

Attachment(s)

sickbayout.vmx   3 KB 1 version

Windows 7 x64 Edition_workstation.zip   608 B 1 version

[tamaris]

Great! The System is back up and running.

Cheers!