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 Deleting snap shots seems to have corrupted my VM

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John DiCarlo posted Jul 31, 2025 04:27 PM

I was cleaning up my snapshots within the Fusions snapshot menu item and when it was doing the clean up it failed  and got a message there was not enough disk space.  Subsequently I am getting: The parent of this virtual disk could not be opened

Cannot open the disk '/Users/johndicarlo/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 11 64-bit Arm.vmwarevm/Virtual Disk-000002.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Module 'Disk' power on failed. Failed to start the virtual machine.

I found the same message posted as a question on this subject and ran the command to get a file list.  Here is the commend I ran:

ls -al /Users/johndicarlo/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows\ 11\ 64-bit\ Arm.vmwarevm > /Users/johndicarlo/Desktop/filelist.txt

I compared the listing to the file contents of the vm and they are the same so I not sure what I am looking for.....

Attached the is the vmware.log file that says I need to repair a few vmdk files.  I also attached the metadata information I collected about the virtual disk in the event the virtual disk is corrupted. Should I run vmware-vdiskmanager -R to repair them?

Any advise what the next steps are to recover?

Running Sequoia 15.5  and Fusion Pro 13.6.4.  I do not have a backup of my vm other than from TimeMachine backsups of my mac.....(Yes I now know that’s a no no to back up vm's)).

Please advise and thanks in advance. - John