I recently attempted to make a new VM from another
image I had already created. The goal was to clone it and have it be
an independent image. What I did not know is that when you use the
CREATE NEW feature in Fusions and you select the option to build one
off of another one, you are essentially stealing the "parent copy" from
the original one. If you make any changes to it, the original VM WILL
NOT WORK and you get the error above.
I thought it was making a clone!!
Computer is MacBook. OS 10.5.6
Guest OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Fusion 2.01
In
any case, I cannot start the original VM. I am happy to rebuild it
eventually, but what I must do is get the data off of it (My
Documents). I have NO BACKUP.
Is there a way to just mount or "read" the VM to copy the data from it? Then we can try to save the VM itself.
Right
now the VM is stuck in suspend mode. The shut down command is gray and
I cannot select it. So I made a complete copy of the original VM and then deleted any .vmss files and .vmem files, one for each snapshot...I did this, except that I had no .vmss files. I also updated the vmx file. Now the VM is at least NOT stuck in suspend mode. But I still cannot mount it with VMDK mounter.
Goal #1 - recover My Documents and Outlook Data any way possible
