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mikkanu
Contributor
Contributor
‎05-20-2008 09:14 PM

Help recovering virtual machine from suspended state

I have a pretty big problem. I have a Windows XP Pro virtual machine that won't come out of suspended state. When I try to resume it it give this error message:

unrecoverable error Unexpected signal: 11_[.|http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=VMwareWorkstationunrecoverableerror%3A%28vmx%29%0AVmwareunrecoverableerrorUnexpectedsignal%3A+11.&spell=1]_

I've searched online and it seems to be related to memory somehow.

All i really would like to do is somehow force the virtual machine to a shutdown state and restart it. I don't really care about loosing my suspended session in the guest.

I'm running VMWare Workstation 6, on a CentOS linux host. I've also tried opening the virtual machine in VMWare Player with the same result.

This is really bad because I had some really important files on that virtual hard drive. I'm open to any suggestions (even tools that could browse the virtual hard drisk to recover my files)

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RDPetruska
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Leadership
‎05-21-2008 09:19 AM

Delete the *.vmss file in the VM's folder.

mikkanu
Contributor
Contributor
‎05-22-2008 09:56 AM

Thanks RDPetruska! Somehow I was able to fix it. I've tried deleting the .vmss file but that didn't fix it. After that, I've tried creating creating a virtual machine in VirtualBox (it's a different virtualization software that can work with .vmdk drives) and that gave an error while starting. just like VMWare. After that I've rebooted the computer, and tried to mount the dirtual hard drive (using vmware-mount.pl script) and that failed. It was able to see the partitions on the disk (using the vmware-mount -p option) but failed to mount. After that failed, I tried to restart the virtual machine in VMWare Workstation and it magically started this time.

In the end I don't know exactly how it got fixed, but what I can say is that I'm goin to start doing back-ups of my virtual machine. I already had backups of data that was on that virtual hard drive, but I was just dreadding re-installing windows + all apps installed on that machine..

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WoodyZ
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Immortal
‎05-22-2008 10:23 AM 

 I've tried deleting the .vmss file but that didn't fix it. 
Was the Virtual Machine window closed when you deleted the .vmss file?

					
				
			
			
				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
		

		
		
	

	
	


	
				
		
			
		
			
		
			
					
			
		
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
	
	


		

	

		

			

	
		
			
					
				
		
			
		
			
					
		
		
	
				
		
			
					
				
		
			
					

	
			

				
		
			
		
			
				

					
						
	
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