VM corrupted now zero size

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Wilts

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I had a working XP Home VM which suddenly stopped responding. I shut it down and went to restart it. Unfortunately Parallels 4.0 now won't open the VM, complaining that the bundle doesn't contain a valid VM. If I look at the .pvm file in Finder, it reports its size as zero bytes and the package contents are zero. However, if I boot from the Leopard install DVD and run terminal, I can find that the package contains all the necessary files (eg I can cd into the package .pvm file). However, if I run terminal under the normal boot, I get permission denied (even if I run sudo). I have tried running repair disk and repair permissions but no joy.

Does anyone know how to get out of this mess? I do have a back up of the VM but its at work and I won't get back their until Monday.....

Cheers

Paul
 
Solution

I found a solution in the end. Somehow I had messed up the file permissions on the file and had only rw permissions whereas it needed rwx. Once I changed this with chmod, all was fine again.

Cheers

Paul
 
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