I'm running VMFusion on my MacBook Pro since November 2018 with no issues and then all of a sudden had this pop up today. I need this fixed right away as I run a program for my work on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I've attached my log.
Thanks!
Welcome to the Community,
the log you mentioned is missing, please re-attach it.
André
Let's see what we can do.
As a first step I need to find out the size of the metadata in the corrupted .vmdk file.
Please run
dd if="Virtual Disk-s007.vmdk" of="Metadata1536.bin" bs=512 count=3
from the command line (in the Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 10 x64.vmwarevm folder), and attach the Metadata1536.bin file to a reply post.
Based on this, I will then ask you to run a second command to extract the complete metadata from that file.
André
I'm sorry to sound so dense on this matter but I don't know where to find the command line you are referring to.
On the MAC it's called Terminal. An easy way to open it is to use Spotlight (press Command + Space), and search for Terminal.
On the Terminal run cd "Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 10 x64.vmwarevm" which should bring you to the VM's folder.
André
Thank you. I was able to do this but no file was generated.
Can you confirm that you are in the "Windows 10 x64.vmwarevm" folder?
You may run e.g. ls -l to see whether the .vmdk files show up.
André
Yes, they all show up:
total 123258896
drwxr-xr-x 48 annaleetaylor staff 1536 Jul 10 14:39 Applications
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 1536 Aug 27 12:19 Metadata1536.bin
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 3567714304 Aug 22 23:22 Virtual Disk-s001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 3798597632 Aug 22 20:00 Virtual Disk-s002.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 3771400192 Aug 22 20:00 Virtual Disk-s003.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 3608870912 Aug 22 20:00 Virtual Disk-s004.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 2848522240 Aug 22 20:00 Virtual Disk-s005.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4201906176 Aug 22 20:00 Virtual Disk-s006.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4261478400 Aug 22 12:38 Virtual Disk-s007.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4261937152 Aug 22 20:00 Virtual Disk-s008.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4261937152 Aug 22 09:52 Virtual Disk-s009.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4261871616 Aug 22 12:38 Virtual Disk-s010.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4261937152 Aug 22 09:53 Virtual Disk-s011.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4261937152 Aug 22 08:39 Virtual Disk-s012.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4259381248 Aug 22 09:11 Virtual Disk-s013.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4261937152 Aug 22 11:31 Virtual Disk-s014.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 4261937152 Aug 22 20:00 Virtual Disk-s015.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 502398976 Aug 22 11:37 Virtual Disk-s016.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 1167 Aug 19 14:06 Virtual Disk.vmdk
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 2147483648 Aug 22 20:00 Windows 10 x64-e7e49567.vmem
drwxrwxrwx 3 annaleetaylor staff 96 Aug 19 14:06 Windows 10 x64-e7e49567.vmem.lck
-rw------- 1 annaleetaylor staff 270840 Aug 20 12:46 Windows 10 x64.nvram
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 1003 Aug 27 12:06 Windows 10 x64.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 0 Nov 16 2018 Windows 10 x64.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 annaleetaylor staff 7036 Aug 19 16:15 Windows 10 x64.vmx
drwxrwxrwx 3 annaleetaylor staff 96 Aug 27 11:39 Windows 10 x64.vmx.lck
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 372 May 21 14:36 Windows 10 x64.vmxf
drwxr-xr-x 7 annaleetaylor staff 224 Nov 16 2018 appListCache
drwxr-xr-x 3 annaleetaylor staff 96 Aug 19 14:06 caches
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 0 Aug 27 09:39 quicklook-cache.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 529084 Aug 19 14:06 startMenu.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 120419 Aug 27 11:38 vmware-0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 120417 Aug 27 11:37 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 120412 Aug 27 11:28 vmware-2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 120417 Aug 27 12:04 vmware.log
AnnaLees-MacBook-Pro:Windows 10 x64.vmwarevm annaleetaylor$
I can see the file 😉
-rw-r--r-- 1 annaleetaylor staff 1536 Aug 27 12:19 Metadata1536.bin
André
How do you locate the file for me to attach? I have searched several different ways and still nothing.
It's in "/Users/annaleetaylor/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 10 x64.vmwarevm". You may need to CTRL-Click the .vmwarevm package to view the contents.
André
Great, now run the command to extract all metadata, and attach the resulting .bin file to your nest reply.
dd if="Virtual Disk-s007.vmdk" of="Metadata-w10.bin" bs=512 count=1024
André
PS: This is a good point to backup the VM (unless already done), so there's a way back if something doesn't work as expected.
I've zeroed out the duplicate entries which were reported in the log file.
Please extract "Metadata-w10.fixed" from the attached .zip archive, and store it in the VM's folder.
Then run ls -l in the VM's folder to verify that "Metadata-w10.fixed" has the exact same size as "Metadata-w10.bin"!
If that's the case, you may inject the fixed metadata into the .vmdk file.
dd if="Metadata-w10.fixed" of="Virtual Disk-s007.vmdk" bs=512 count=1024 conv=notrunc
In any case, I strongly recommend that you backup/copy at least "Virtual Disk-s007.vmdk" to some temporary folder before injecting the metadata.
André
Thank you so much André. This has fixed the issue and I am now up and running again.
Your help and patience is so very much appreciated. You made my day!
AnnaLee
I'm glad that I was able to help.
Have a great day
André