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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
VMWare Player. Failed to lock the file error.
I had a power outage today while I was working with a virtual machine using the vmware player 4.0.4. When I got back to vmware and tried to start the virtual machine, I got this "VMware player cannot open disk ... Failed to lock the file" error message.
After a little google search I found out that maybe a lock file could be causing this so I went to the folder where I had my virtual machine in and just deleted the lck file in the .vmdk.lck folder.
Keeping it here for future reference.
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thank you very much :)
You're the man! Awesome fix!! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome.. I was just worried I had lost all the work I had done on my VM when I found this! Thanks a bunch!!! :) :)
This was precisely the problem. I am grateful for your post.
It seems this issue is happening more often than what I thought initially. Glad I was able to help you guys.
Yeah! thanks for this saved me from having to rebuild my VM, thank you
You saved me at the last moment!!
You just saved me from going to Linux.. :D Autoupdate crashed my computer..
Big help. Thanks. You were the first hit when I Googled "vmware player failed to lock the file." The second hit was VMware KB. If the answer is in there, it's not easy to find.
thanks man, sort it out faster than on 3 forums including vwmware's :)
cheers
Glad I helped. Sad to hear it is still happening.
You just saved my skin - thanks!
Thank you a lot!
:)
Thanks a lot! 8-D
Thanks Lukas,
very useful, I solved the problem in n time.
thanks a lot dude. !
worth useful.
Thanks!!
Thanks!
Solved the annoying problem!
Thanks. This saved my bacon!! Have a good one.
Thanks a lot..saved me!
Thanks, worked.
jb
Fixed for me! Thanks!
Fixed for me --thanks a lot . R.
+1 on this post. Was running VMWare Player 6.0.1 on Windows x86-64 and the OS rebooted due to automatic update installs. Fedora 18 virtuam machine refused to boot with similar error messages. Removing the .lck file resolved the problem.
Thank you Lukas for sharing the tip!
Fixed my problem too! Thank YOU!!
Good one. Thanks for the tip.
awesome ! thanks for sharing !
Thanks so much for this. Really helpful
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Thanks lot. It saves lot of time.
My God you saved my Day. Thanks so much for this.
Dude, this is great. Simple and clear. Thanks a million.
You're the man. You save few days of my live :-)
Many thanks. Fixed in under a minute from your post.
Thanks a lot. This saved me a lot of time. I was just going to restore from backup.....:)
From Singapore: Thank you so much! :)
It works. Thanks man :)
wow awesome that's a single point fix. appreciate your help.
nice, thanks bro.... it works...
thx man...I started crying already ...all my work ...
Worked great! Thanks for the tip.
Thanks. It was of great help !!
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