After upgrading Player and Workstation to v16, my Win10 VM stopped booting. it repeatedly got stuck at "preparing automatic repair" When I tried to boot to Win10 ISO image (press F8, select CDROM boot ) the machine got stuck at the windows logo. Together with several misleading fail messages, vm log file had the message "Disklib_GetStorageBlockSizes failed to get storage block sizes"
I ran vmware-vdiskmanager -R for each of the vmdk files. like this
vmware-vdiskmanager -R c:\vm\mycomputer-win10-1-f001.vmdk
vmware-vdiskmanager -R c:\vm\mycomputer-win10-1-f002.vmdk
The only message displayed was the misleading
vmware vixlib failed to initialize phonehome library
Then I created a new VM using existing (and copied) VMDK files in the same fixed allocation configuration. I selected upgrade to V16 compatible format. The new guest started well with just one Windows message warning of requirement to run auto repair (I ignored).
So I am thinking I have missed an important instruction when upgrading.
