VMware InPageError
I had to fix a weird error with VMWare Server (on my laptop). The text was something similar to "vmware server vmx inpageerror" -- sorry, lost the exact text. I think I triggered it with a hard shutdown - some other program appeared to lockup.
The hard drive would make some weird noise on disk access - it seems to be only in VMWare, with one of two VMs that I use. And the host has been running quite well, so I don't think the physical drive has problems.
Ran chkdsk on the physical drive. Nothing came up.
In the end, I renamed (and later deleted) the files that I think are for vmware to place memory conents on "pause" of the VM:
564d9988-1aa8-05c4-81e6-34b6f1b4cdef.vmem.lck
564d9988-1aa8-05c4-81e6-34b6f1b4cdef.vmem.lck (1).vmem
So far so good.
tags: vmware, server, virtual, guestos, boot