My pc crashed and rebooted while I had VM runnig, now when i go to start up the same VM again it gives me an error message saying..
"Cannot open the disk .... or one of the snapshot disks it depends on... reason: Failed to lock the file."
what does this mean and how can i fix it to get back into my VM...??
delete all of them..??
I have 6 diff .lck folders each with 1 .lck file in them..
so i just delete all of the .lck folders/files..??
what do the .lck files/folders do anyway..??
Yes, you will have to delete all the .lck files. These files are created when a VM is powered on so as to prevent another user/instance of a workstation to power-on the same VM. One .lck is created each for .vmx, .vmdk and .vmem.
Its a marker to show its in use. Delete them, its fine.. if you cant delete them, somethings using them, eg its running in background - but you'd know that so go ahead.
