How to fix a corrupt vmx file

[SelwynO]

What is the best method of fixing a corrupted VMX file on Workstation 15.5

[Alex_Romeo · Accepted solution]

Hi,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46193933/how-to-repair-vmx-file-corrupted-at-vmware

ARomeo

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

if you are running VMware Player on Windows, you may use the batch script that I've posted at HowTo: Recreating a .vmx from the vmware.log file.

Caution: If the VM has active snapshots (<vmname>-00000x.vmdk files), it is important to ensure that the newest one in the snapshot chain shows up in the .vmx file.

In doubt, provide a complete list of files (e.g. the output of dir *.*) in the VM's folder, and attach the vmware.log to your next reply.

André

[oboy1]

Hi, the storage on my VM ran out and i accidentally deleted the 'Ubuntu 64-bit-0-s008' files. I recovered the files but when I try to open the files it says VM corrupt and when I try to open the vmx file i recovered it says internal error. How can i recover my research??? please help.

[RDPetruska]

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@oboy1 wrote:

Hi, the storage on my VM ran out and i accidentally deleted the 'Ubuntu 64-bit-0-s008' files. I recovered the files but when I try to open the files it says VM corrupt and when I try to open the vmx file i recovered it says internal error. How can i recover my research??? please help.

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Did you download the utility in the above link?  or, post the vmware.log file from the VM's folder and one of us can run it through the log2vmx utility.