Is it possible to recovery a VMX file?

[wshwan]

The VMX file was lost，and the virtual machine is encrypted.

What should I do?

[scott28tt]

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This post belongs in a product area, which VMware product are you using?

If it's vSphere, the information I can see online suggests restoring from backup: Encrypted VM Backup and Restore

[wshwan]

My product: VMware® Workstation 15 Pro(ver:15.1.0 build-13591040), 3qs.

[scott28tt]

Moderator note: Moved to the Workstation Pro area

[RDPetruska]

Post the latest vmware.log file from the VM's folder.

If it's an encrypted VM, you may be out of luck, but if at least the log isn't encrypted, we can hopefully rebuild the vmx file itself.

[wshwan]

This is my VM log, 3qs.

[RDPetruska]

Here is what I extracted from the log.  Everything looks ok except possibly the rollingTiern.displayName.  Those characters may or may not be corrupted.  Try this.

[wshwan]

还是不能打开，显示 "加密库问题。". 

Still can't opened. "Encryption library problem." is display.

[continuum]

Can you please check if the vmdks are encrypted ?

The log complains about missing vmdk-parameters ....

By the way - respect ! You seem to be a true warrior type.

I would not risk to create a VM with maybe up to 200gb of probably valuable data the way you do.

You create the disk as one piece growing, AND you use Autoprotect ( = in your case you set  3 automatic snapshot timer ) AND you encrypted the VM AND you have the courage to suspend such a VM.

Honestly I would not have the nerves to do that - respect.

I am also wondering about this 3 lines:

  rollingTier0.displayName = "自动保护快照"

  rollingTier1.displayName = "自动保护快照"

  rollingTier2.displayName = "自动保护快照"

Does that look normal with your localisation ?

[wshwan]

Thank you very much.

Unfortunately, the vmdks are encrypted. But the files are in good condition.

rollingTier0.displayName = "自动保护快照",

rollingTier1.displayName = "自动保护快照",

rollingTier2.displayName = "自动保护快照",