[ALUG] Recovering deleted files that a process still has open

[Chris G]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:04:56AM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
> I have a vmware-server installation running a virtual machine, however I 
> have subsequently (and accidentally) deleted the .vmx configuration file.
> 
> It appears that VMWare still has the file open, so it won't (as I 
> understand it) be lost until VMWare is closed (eg I reboot the machine).
> 
> Is there anything I can do to recover the file whilst in this state?
> 
> (O/S is Ubuntu 7.04 if that helps.)
> 
If you edit the virtual machine settings (via the Vmware console
menus) I would think that it will rewrite the .vmx file.  There's
certainly no harm trying, you can change a fairly innocuous setting.

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Chris Green