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Mental note: VMWare Fusion and encryption

Just a mental note: don't encrypt your home folder after creating one or more VMWare Fusion VMs. It seems to corrupt the vmx file, leaving the VM unusable, and forcing you to reinstall, re-apply Windows Update and re-install *everything* again.

/grumble
Print | posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:26 PM

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# re: Mental note: VMWare Fusion and encryption

left by Ben G. at 9/28/2007 1:31 PM Gravatar
Hi there,

This nasty little bug was finally reproduced and fixed in VMware Fusion's 1.1 beta, available now:

http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/

It turns out to be a general bug with FileVault, which you can trigger without even using Fusion.

# re: Mental note: VMWare Fusion and encryption

left by Kent Sharkey at 9/28/2007 1:39 PM Gravatar
Rocking! Thank you, Ben!

The LazyWeb wins again.

# re: Mental note: VMWare Fusion and encryption

left by Kent Sharkey at 9/28/2007 1:39 PM Gravatar
Rocking! Thank you, Ben!

The LazyWeb wins again.

# re: Mental note: VMWare Fusion and encryption

left by Ben G. at 9/28/2007 5:49 PM Gravatar
Cheers! Let me know if the fix works for you. :)

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