Hi,
I have the following configuration:
Fedora 8 x64 Running Vmwareplayer 2.5.0 build-118166
with debian 4, Fedora 8 x386 and winxp as guests OSes.
After a crash of my host, I was able to restore my complete Vmware directory from a previous backup. The zip archive I used contained all 3 guest virtual machines (debian, Fedora and Winxp). I am able to play two of the virtual machines (Debian and Fedora) however, when I try to play the winxp virtual machine, I get the following error
error while powering on: Pipe: Read failed
My guess is that the zip archive was created with the winxp guess OS in suspend mode instead of completely shutdown. Is there a way to bypass this status and simply reboot the Winxp OS?
Thanks for any hint.
GA
I finally solved the problem.
Here is what I did:
I renamed the file .vmss to something like .vmss_bad which seems to store the state of the virtual in suspend mode.
I restarted the virtual machine again (this almos crashed my machine since vmwareplayer displays tons of error)
I terminate the vmwareplayer process
I rename back .vmss_ba to .vmss
I restarted the virtual machine again
Upon restart, vmwareplayer asked if I wanted to discard the saved state and I said yes.
And now it works pretty well
GA