Could not open paging file

[dabe99de]

Hi,

since yesterday i got a strange error everytime i try to boot a vm. Fusion keeps complaining it can not open the paging file and that i maybe dont have enough free disk space. On my external drive, where the virtual machines are located, i have about 150GB free space. And on the local harddisk there are more than 20GB free. So i cant understand, where the problem might be. Additionaly i have ca. 1GB of free ram so even if the disks where full, no swaping had to occure. Did i miss something or is it maybe a problem with file permissions? I tried to figure out where fusion saves the paging files but till now i couldnt figure it out.

Thanks for your help in advance!

regards,

dabe99de

[admin]

What's the exact text of the message? Are you sure it's Fusion giving the message, not the guest? Screenshot?

[dabe99de]

The headline is "Could not open paging file for 256 MB: Input/output error" and the detailed error message is "Cannot open paging file for the virtual machine RAM. There may not be enough free disk space on the host. Either free some disk space or allocate less memory to the virtual machine and try again."

Here is a screenshot of the problem: http://staatsfeind.org/~db/vmware.png

Message was edited by: dabe99de

[rcardona2k]

This could be an error because of a corrupted .vmem file In your VM bundle. If you open your VM's bundle and see a file with the extensions .vmem and .vmss, try deleting these and run your VM again.

[dabe99de]

Nope, neither a vmem nor a vmss file is present in any of my virtual maschine folders. I think i didnt make myself clear enough.I get this error regardless which machine i try to boot. Even if it's a newly created.

[rbowerman]

I am getting the same error. Here's the text:

Could not open paging file for 512MB:

“Input/output error”.

Failed to allocate main memory

Module MainMem power on failed