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How to recover a VMware virtual machine

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Mar 15, 202676254 views
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I was running Ubuntu in VMware Player. It froze up when I was using it, so I killed it with the Task Manager. The reason it froze was because I ran out of disk space. So after killing the process I made more space. But now, if I try to run the virtual machine again, I get the following error Error …

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Fix for: How to recover a VMware virtual machine

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What happens is that vmware lock some files while it's running. So, there's no need to recreate VM or rebooting windows whatsoever. All you need to do is to kill all vmware processes. So, just open windows task manager and look for vmware in the pro…

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