Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. VMware Fusion is a software hypervisor developed by VMware for Macintosh computers. VMware Fusion allows Intel-based Macs to run virtual machines with guest operating systems—such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, NetWare, Solaris, or macOS—within the host macOS operating system.
- The virtual machine fails to start after a forced Mac shutdown or host shutdown.
- The virtual machine does not boot up after a crash.
- When starting the virtual machine, you see the error:
Cannot open the disk '<path to virtual machine>/<virtual disk.vmdk>' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: The specified virtual disk needs repair. - When trying to mount the virtual disk with VMDKMounter, you see the error:
There is a problem trying to mount the virtual disk. - When trying to repair the virtual disk using vmware-vdiskmanager, you see the error:
The virtual disk is corrupted but the repair process has failed.