Fusion 2.05 unable to connect to VM

[void242]

I recently moved to 10.6 and had my profile moved to a second partition due to backup/reinstall reasons. (50GB / 450GB partitions)

I installed VMWare Fusion 2.05 and tried to get an VM created.

Unfortunately Fusion refuses to start the VM.

This is the log :

Sep 28 11:47:08.166: vmfusion| VMHSVMCbPower: Setting state of VM /vm/#7b28d55e9c4371b1/ to powerOn with option soft

Sep 28 11:47:08.166: vmfusion| VMHS: Exec()'ing /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vmx, /Volumes/Data/VMWare/Ubuntu.vmwarevm/Ubuntu.vmx

Sep 28 11:47:08.192: vmfusion| VMHSHostConnectVMX: Failed to connect to pipe vmx7b28d55e9c4371b1: No such file or directory

Sep 28 11:47:10.711: vmfusion| VixVM_FinalRelease: Close VM socket.

Sep 28 11:47:10.712: vmfusion| AIOMGR-S : stat o=154 r=282 w=22 i=0 br=5340176 bw=11264

If I do set up the VM on my root partition (where the OS is located), I do get another error (shortened): No rights on "~/Library/Preferences/Vmware Fusion"

I do have administrator privileges on my machine.

Few more Info on that machine: Macbook Pro 3,1 - 2,4 GHz C2D, 3 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD

It appears to be that VMWare Fusion 2.0 is not capable of handling multi partitioned systems.

/edit: reinstalling, deleting prefs, etc did not help, 2.0.6 beta did neither.

Is this correct? Does anyone have a hint?

Searching the community did not get me a result. 😐

[edm00se]

You know, prior to having my own problems, I would keep a couple VMs on an USB HDD that I use for travel. I had been fully able to run the VMs from this location just fine up until my overall issues. I know it sounds counterintuitive to your own observations, but it's the setup I'd had and had been working fine.

[void242]

Thanks for answering, but I do keep my home directory, movies, photos etc. on that second partition for easier reinstall.

I do a "real" backup with time machine.