VMWare Erroe...Can't Find Peer

[scottostrowski]

I have attached the file for this error...can anyone help? I have a ton of data in this file.

[dariusd]

Hi scottostrowski,

Is this the same host machine as in your thread from eight months ago? 

Once again, the hard drive in your computer is failing.  You should get the disk replaced.  The crashes you are seeing are a direct result of the hard disk problems.

Feb 18 07:43:56 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 2
Feb 19 07:31:38 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 3
Feb 20 07:32:44 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 2
Feb 21 07:48:50 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 08:50:38 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 08:51:14 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 08:52:01 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 08:54:11 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 3
Feb 21 09:03:43 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 09:05:10 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 09:06:22 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 09:13:42 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 09:19:59 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 09:36:14 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 11:02:41 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 2
Feb 21 13:29:55 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 13:33:31 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 16:15:19 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 16:18:36 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 16:19:59 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Feb 21 16:21:31 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 3
Feb 21 16:29:10 xxxxxxxxx kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.

Cheers,

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Darius

[scottostrowski]

Thank You...no it is not. This is a different machine.  Bigger question here is, if I copy the VM image donw to a HD then reimage the MAC and then transfer the VM back to the NEW HD do you think it will launch ok?

Thanks agin for the help...

[dariusd]

Wow... I might have finally found someone with worse luck with HDDs than I have!  :smileysilly:

HDD failures are quite unpredictable... sometimes they will be intermittent (you might be able to read the files perfectly tomorrow morning!) but sometimes the data in the bad blocks are gone for good.  The failure you're seeing is occurring while Fusion is trying to reading in the suspended state of the VM (i.e. the virtual RAM that we saved to a file), and if you lose that suspended state, it's roughly the same effect as a power failure on a running physical computer: There's a reasonably good chance that it'll boot up just fine afterwards, but there are no guarantees...

The most important part of the VM is the virtual hard disk.  The information you've provided unfortunately doesn't tell us enough to say whether you'd likely succeed in copying the VM's hard disk and other files.  Give it a try!  Maybe look around for data-recovery software if you find that you need it, or post back here with additional questions... There's a bit of data recovery knowledge floating around in these forums.

If you can successfully copy the files off the HD and onto a new HD, there's a very good chance that you will be able to boot it right up again.

Cheers,

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Darius