VMX File Corrupt

[YoPoMusic]

Hi - I have a corrupt VMX file.

Can anyone help please?

Looking at my log files - there are 4 - and one is 60mb and one 18mb - is that normal?

Many thanks

Jonathan

[YoPoMusic]

I got this to work doing the following - not sure if there is any downside to doing this:

I created a new VM.

And option - create custom VM

Placed it in a folder on my drive.

Opened the package once installed and grabbed the VMX file from there.

And put that file in place of the corrupted one on my usual VM

Now it seems to open fine.

Anything to worry about?

[Darcyz]

Hi YoPoMusic,

Welcome to Fusion Community.

Could you let me know which version Fusion take?

Please try to upgrade to latest Fusion version 8.5.3. The issue is fixed in this version.

If still doesn't work, please let me know.

Thanks and Regards

[YoPoMusic]

So is what you're saying:  I need to pay $50 and it will be fixed in the new version?

I seem to remember something similar before when there were problems - fixed of course by upgrading. Paid upgrade.

Why can't the issue be fixed for for your loyal version 7 customers as well?

Any view on the fix that I posted - seems to work fine so far?

Thanks J

[Darcyz]

if in osx sierra, actually Fusion 7 doesn't support it.

Thanks and Regards

[YoPoMusic]

Wow that's excellent support.

Still can't respond to the question for some reason...

[mini2008]

Hi,

Please take a look at HowTo: Recreating a .vmx from the vmware.log file to see if it is helpful for you.

Hope helpful.

[YoPoMusic]

Hi thanks for that. Looks like quite a process. I'm not a programmer or IT expert I just use VMW to run Windows so I can get my work done and then suddenly I'm faced with a problem that has no obvious fix apart from a paid upgrade. Hummmmmmm... This has happened before.

My fix which was very quick was to create a VM and then take that VMX and use it to replace the corrupted one in my regular VM.

It works - but as I keep asking is there anything wrong with doing that?

Thanks

[YoPoMusic]

Also still can't get an answer whether its official Fusion doesn't work in V7?

[wila]

Hi,

VMware Fusion 7 works fine.

The issue about vmx file corrupt is not a specific Fusion 7 issue. This usually happens when you run out of disk space and the broken vmx is the least of your worries in that case, if that even happens.

The initial reply you got was more to do with VMware Fusion having been End of life for a while already and not being officially supported on macOS Sierra.

There's plenty of people running it on Sierra though, it works, but has a few quirks.

--

Wil

[YoPoMusic]

Thanks for that.

Can you see anything wrong with the fix I did?

Thanks J

[RDPetruska]

I would say, if your virtual machine is running fine now, then what you have done is fine.  Make a backup so that you have a known good state to revert to in case of future trouble, but other than that, I wouldn't worry.

[YoPoMusic]

Ah good plan - I will do that.

Thanks for help.

J