After Snow Leopard & Fusion 2.06 upgrade "A disk read error occurred" message when vm is started

[Volcano4hire]

After Snow Leopard & Fusion 2.06 upgrade, when starting the virtual machine I get "A disk read error occurred press ctrlaltdel to restart" message.

I ran Disk utility which found errors. I rebooted from Snow leopard dvd ran repair in disk utility successfully. Removed and reinstalled fusion -same problem. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Volcano4hire]

I seem to have isolated the problem to the .vmdk file being corrupted. Can this be repaired, or recreated?

[Mikero]

You could try using vmware-vdiskmanager with the -R flag on the vmdk.

use Terminal: cd '/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/'

Then:

vmware-vdiskmanager -R '/path/to/your/disk.vmdk'

You might want to check your system.log file for disk I/O errors too, just to be certain your hard drive isn't failing... if you see 'Input Output error' alot in the log that's a telltale sign your disk is on it's way out.

[Volcano4hire]

Thank you so much. We will try it

Sincerely,

Norman