[RESOLVED] VMWare Version 5.5.2

[Toucan]

I am currently building a test environment with VMWare to do software tests. I have created in one Environment 50 snapshots. Well when I went to save the 51 snapshot the VMWare hung up and crashed. I reset my system and started VMWare again and tried to open the main snapshot from my snapshot tree and I recieved the following error:

Could not open virtual Machine: "Directory" Dictionary problem.



I tried to start from other snapshots and I am recieving the same error message every time. I know it has nothing to do with the VMWare host because other environments I have built work fine.

I would be very thankful to anyone that could give me some support in this area.

I thank you wizards in advance
Dave

[Steve R Jones]

Welcome to VirtualDr

Did you look on VMWare's web site to see if there's a solution?

[Toucan]

Hi Steve,

That was the first thing I did. But they do not have that much information in regards to technical libraries. I found the dictionary and when it crashed it wrote a line of code that put a start number that wasnt correct. The library told it that it should start from 14 but the snapshot 43 was the starting point in the main image. I erased the line of code and the thing worked perfectly.

For further knowledge I will paste the problem with the solution so all you wizards will have a bit of good info.

Problem:
Dictionary Failure ( with only the last bit of code out of the .vsmd data )


snapshot43.uid = "17"
snapshot43.filename = "win2000Pro-Snapshot17.vmsn"
snapshot43.parent = "15"
snapshot43.displayName = "User Rights"
snapshot43.description = "User Name |22Test1|22, Password |22test|22"
snapshot43.type = "1"
snapshot43.createTimeHigh = "282146"
snapshot43.createTimeLow = "-1713632512"
snapshot43.numDisks = "1"
snapshot43.disk0.fileName = "Windows 2000 Professional-000017.vmdk"
snapshot43.disk0.node = "scsi0:0"

snapshot14.createTimeHigh = "282163"

Last line of code said snapshot 14 and the .vmx data had the entry 43 but when it tried to start it was getting confused because of the 14. I killed that last line and it worked perfectly.

Thank you to all that tried to break there heads on this one.

Have a good day.

Dave