VM Blues

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Recently, Win 8 forcefully upgraded itself (there was no clear way of
stopping it) and I forgot to close my VMware VM. Previously, in the
event of a crash, the VM had started up not where I left off, but
with a fresh boot. But this time, I got a dreaded message described here:


http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004232

along with cryptic cures.

A better page was

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/464952

and, indeed, closing VMware and deleting all possible .lck files
resulted in W2K booting again properly.


Clearly, I need some kind of auto-save mechanism!