vmware power cut off **SOLVED**

[roland]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:44:08 +0100, roland <roland at cat.be> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I just had a power cut off and when I restarted the server the vmware  
> clients did not start.
> It gave the following message:
>
> VMControl error -16: Virtual machine requires user input to continue
> so I did:
> vmware-cmd <virtual mach.vmx> answer
> this gave
> Question (id = 507320049) :Cannot open the disk  
> '/var/lib/vmware/VirtualMachines/ltspcentOS5/ltspcentOS5.vmdk' or one of  
> the snapshot disks it depends on.
> Reason: Failed to lock the file.
> 0) OK
> Select choice. Press enter for default <0> :
>
> After answering with enter
> vmware-cmd <virtual mach.vmx> start
>
> I received the same answer
> VMControl error -16: Virtual machine requires user input to continue
>
> I was looking for .lck files but found nothing.
> Where are they?
>
I restarted the vmware server and the problem was solved. OEPS

Sorry for bothering you

Thans anyway


-- 
Roland Brouwers