Hi Folks,
As the title suggests, i've used vmware server/esxi (and virtualbox) for years. For some reason I installed player on a new laptop and within a week have somehow managed to corrupt a disk image to the extent that it doesn't seem recoverable. Two (sets of) questions
- Is player in any way less robust in terms of maintaining disk image integrity than server? This system (new windows 8 box) has shut itself down once or twice b/c i forgot to change the windows update settings, but aside from that the images do not undergo much disk activity such that it would have been 'busy' when it shut down. There were several occasions where i *abused* my vmware server images (both running windows guests), constantly shutting down on running systems and never had an issue with the disk image file itself...not one time. Of course the guest filesystem took a dookie every now and again, but no surprises there.
- How do disk images get corrupt to the point that they are unusable? I know the snapshots add complexity, but isn't a 20gb preallocated disk basically just a big block bucket? What would corrupt it to the point that vmware-dismanager can't successfully repair it?
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
Bob