I foolishly upgrade from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 this morning and ever since i cant boot my recently created VM. I made this VM in 2.0.5. The VM is xpsp2
The error I get is;
"Cannot open the Disk diskname or one of the snapshots it depends on
Reason: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created"
I made a copy of everything befoe i began troubleshooting.
I tried some tips online that suggested making changes to the vmx file but none have helped.
What is the procedure to get my VM working? I wouldnt mind re installing 2.0.5 but of course i dont have a copy of the software, is this a good idea and where could i get it from?
I have an old VM i restored from backup and it runs fine. Something i notice thats differentbetween the broken one and the working one. The broken one al;l of the file are inside a 'package'? So i have to right click and Show Package Content to be able to see the files. My old VM has a folder full of files. I dont know if this is significant.
I have attached the latest log which i hope helps some one help me 
http://sharesend.com/oe2k9
Appreciate any tips, getting pretty desperate.
I downgraded to Fusion 2.0.5 and it didnt help 
I should have added above i am running 10.5.8
I have a DMG because i made it from the volume licensing copy of the media we have a huge volume licensing for. I do not share it or the key with anyone, because it doesnt belong to me it belong to my employer. I made the DMG because i had to install windows twice recently.
Like I said "Now I'm not saying you did and just that it gives the appearance..."
Every forum has different expectations, most people prefer attrachments for logs rather thn massive posts of log entries - cant win. But i think it does show i was thinking about it abnd trying to be considerate!
I agree attachments are better then duping the content of a log into the body of a post and just below the text box when starting a thread or writing a post or reply one can Attach Files and it is preferred that they be archived as some users have to pay for bandwidth usage.
I was kinda hoping to get some tips from the gurus on this problem? I have found but of course i ahd already done almost everything he says not to. So i will restore from backup an wait for some further advice, hopefully :smileygrin: .
Well it might be helpful to know how you managed to modify the base disk and how much you modified it and not saying that you can recover but it might just be easier to move one with a new one or use the base disk to create another one. Anyway you'd have to provide a lot more information for someone to specifically help and in the end there no guarantee it would work but the .vmsd file would need to be modified so the VM would think the parent virtual disk has not been modified since the child was created but I would never depend on that VM again and would just either restore from backup of use the base disk (parent disk) to create a new VM and move on. This of course assumes you've been backing up user data outside of the VM as a separate backup to the VM itself and do not need to recover an data. If you need to recover data then that's a different story.
For anyone that has the time to help they are going to need a file listing of the Virtual Machine Package and the .vmx, .log and .vmsd from within the package. Have a look at and also one of the best ways to provide comprehensive diagnostic information is to use the "Collect Support Information" command from the VMware Fusion (menu bar) > Help > Collect Support Information and then attach the .tgz file it created on your Desktop and then all you'd need in addition to that is the file listing as described in the linked document.