Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Eli Marmor wrote: > > > .. > > > I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for here. If you are > after someone adept at setting up and configuring vmware, or even > interfacing to it in strange ways, then I, for example, may be able to > help you. If you are really looking for a vmware internals expert, I'm > afraid those are only available at vmware. It is, after all, a closed > source application.
You are 100% right - my message lacked minimal information: As Ira guessed, it is about a recovery of a hard disk image. I have a Linux guest, under VMware Workstation 5.0 (legal, of course, so I have no problem to contact the "We!" company, if it could help). Rather than a normal bootable (virtual) hard disk, that guest is based on (the live-CD distro) Morphix, and the virtual hard disk (scsi0:0) is mounted automatically during (guest) system startup. I save snapshots from time to time. The last backup of the directory where the snapshots sit, was done between the last snapshot and the snapshot before of it (it's hard to backup it incrementally, because of the monster files). This morning, I reverted to the last snapshot. The content of the virtual hard disk was older than expected (the rest was OK, i.e. the RAM, including the ram-disk copy of the live-cd + the live modications to it). During any boot of a guest, a warning dialog box pops up, reminding you to install "vmware-tools" (unless you disable this pop-up). Always when it pops up, I click at it "automatically", even without reading it. This time, a similar warning dialog box popped up too, and I clicked at it, but it was probably another dialog box, because immediately after it, the standard dialog-box popped up. Maybe the first dialog box warned me about a problem. Maybe the problem had anything to do with an action that could not be done due to less enough disk space (the host had about 3GB free space, which is OK for normal things, but may be too little for software like VMware with its monster files). I don't want to lose the latest files and modifications in the virtual HD; this is why I'm looking for that expert. I'm willing to pay, of course. This also answers Didi, who recommended using QEMU; while this is a cool replacement for VMware, and the availability of its source allows anybody to patch and change it, it doesn't have anything to do with my need. Thanks everybody, -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
