Please don't answer off list. I'm very interested in the answer. On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:56:46PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > I recently had a partial hard drive failure of my XP Pro partition but have > moved to another drive thanks to a Knoppix cd and the dd command. > > However, since then Vmware never gets past the initial splash screen and > doesn't show any of the pseudo bios messages. My guess is that one or more > of the files that chkdsk had to repair from the NTFS journal didn't get put > back together right. Everything else seems to work so it's hard to track > down. > > Yes, I've uninstalled and reinstalled and even tried an earlier version and > then upgrading. No luck. > > Would converting from the simple player to Vmware Server be something I > might want to try? I haven't looked at the registration process to see if > it is yucky or not.
I don't know if server will provide a "repair" option that might recover your VM's disks. I do know that the registration process is not yucky -- you simply have to provide a name and email address and answer a few survey-type questions about how you intend to use it, and they send you a registration key. I did go through the process but never actually installed the copy of server that I downloaded --- I wound up buying Workstation instead as it was more of a fit for my needs. As far as I can tell there's no type of disk repair utility that comes with Workstation, so I rather doubt that there will be one in Server, but there could be some way to recover it. If you just happen to have the original zip file for the virtual machine, you might try moving your current virtual machine file out of the way and unpacking a new virgin copy, and see if that boots up. That would at least tell you if it's your virtual machine that's corrupted or the player. If it's the VM there might be no way to fix it short of reinstalling it. BTW, this might be a good time to point out to others who were considering downloading the virtual machine that I have just put a new version up for grabs, thanks to Jason Winningham and John Ronan. This has all the Xubuntu updates through last Thursday, a CVS version of xastir from the same day, and xastir built against OpenMotif instead of lesstif. If you figure out that you have a good vmware player install and a corrupted, unrecoverable virtual machine and that you have to start from scratch, you might want to grab the latest VM instead of using the old one. Links are on the wiki, as usual. Also, Scott Miller (of OpenTracker fame) is considering making CDs containing the virtual machine available for nominal cost from his web site, but this hasn't happened yet. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir