After deciding to move a vm from Drive I to Drive F due to space limitations I copied the relevant vm folder to its new location. I then started the vm which on booting asked the question Did you Move or Copy, to which I replied Moved, the system then booted and operated completely as normal. I then created a snapshot and logged out. At this point I booted the original system and then logged out. Since everything seemed to be as I expected I then deleted the files from the original location.
I then tried to reboot the moved system and was presented with the error message:
Cannot open the disk I:\....... or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: The paerent disk has been modified since the child was created........
The machine then went into the SUSPEND state - from which there would appear to be no recovery, any attempt to resume causes the same error message and the same suspend. Is there any way in which I can resolve this problem, almost all solutions appear to require that the machine be at power down status and this cannot be achieved. I do find it rather hard to believe that a product with the hisory of vmware, which I have been using since version 2, can produce an non fixable error such as above and leave the system in a suspend and not powered off state, unless of course they have a simple fix for the problem, which from pouring over google results they do not have.
Has anyone any ideas as to how I might overcome this major problem.
Host Machine: Windows 7 Professional
Guest Machine: Windows 2000 Professional
CPU: Amd Athlon 965 Black edition
Ram: 8GB
Vmare Workstation 8
Thanks in advance
Ray