Resuming is stuck

[jmv2]

I re-started a suspended WinXP VM (OSX) and it is stuck at the resuming... dialog.

Cannot exit application : "The virtual machine "XP" is busy".

What can I do without loosing my VM ?

Thanks

JM

[wila]

Hi jmv2,

The question is why it cannot resume the VM. This by itself is not a common thing to happen and you might already have lost the VM and seeing this as a side effect. However my first guess would be that you have bumped into some sort of quirk and that the VM is still OK.

Are other VMs still working?

If you can access the Virtual Machine menu for the VM then hold down "Option" key while selecting the menu.

Options "reset" and "shut down" should appear.

The effect of "reset" is like pressing the reset button on a physical computer and choosing "shut down" on the VM is similar to pulling the power cord from a physical computer. Normally the VM survives that kind of action, it might however trigger a check disk operation within the VM upon booting the VM.

Next I suggest to reboot your OS X computer after doing the above (or if you cannot reset/shutdown then that's pretty much your only option as well)

After a reboot try to start the VM again. If you still have problems, attach the vmware.log files found in your VM folder as an attachment to a reply down here.

Good  luck.

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Wil

[jmv2]

Hi Wila,

I managed to resolve this.

After a while of resuming (5 minutes or so) I got a message which I did not note down but sounded like "cannot connect to any peers?".

I was able to close VmWare.

Then, I rebooted my Mac and was able to resume the VM after the boot.

Thanks

JM

[wila]

Hi,

Yes that's an error I've seen in the past (long time ago now on Fusion for me)

Something like this, which happens to be for VMware Workstation but it was a recent mention so figured to link this one:

"Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"

Glad to hear your problem is resolved and thanks for letting us know.

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Wil

[nataliachu]

wila‌‌  I have the same problem: resuming is stuck even after mac reset. Recently I've installed software updates and upgraded to masOS Sierra - can it the the issue?

See attached logs.

I will appreciate any help!

[wila]

Hello Natalia,

Welcome at the VMware community forum

The first line in your log has this:

2016-09-30T16:28:10.766+03:00| vmx| I120: Log for VMware Fusion pid=7580 version=6.0.6

Unfortunately it seems that Fusion 6.x does not work on macOS Sierra.

If you want to get your virtual machines back up and running then -at least for now- the only solution appears to be to upgrade VMware Fusion to Fusion 8.x or later.

You can get a 30 day trial version here:

Try VMware Fusion or Fusion Pro.

If after 30 days you are happy with how it works you can change license into a normal license by buying the upgrade.

(No need to re-install, just apply the license you get)

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Wil

[nataliachu]

wila‌ thank you very much! It helped!