Wednesday, November 26, 2014

VMWare Player scare: Boot time error: The file specified is not a virtual disk

Documented here, the issue occurs due to mismatched settings between the virtual hard drive descriptor and data files. This was caused by a VMDK file deleted by VirtualBox (presumed) and mirculously retrieved using TOKIWA data recovery. The restored file was uncorrupted, but unrecognized by VMWare Player. The solution was to unregister the VM and register it anew. Blessed be the goddess.

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