Hi Everyone.
I just wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing the behavior that I am suddenly experiencing.
For some time now I have been using the Import XPMode function in VMware Player and suddenly it stopped working on my laptop that I cart around with me. I will test new applications, etc in an XPmode import, and eventually if that VM gets to run down from testing poorly written software, or I need to start clean, I just delete the VM and perform a new XPMode import. When I got home rather than waste more time trying to get my Iaptop copy working I simply imported XPMode on my home machine and everything worked fine, this was last Friday. I spent most of today attempting to fix my laptop, removing XPMode, Windows Virtual PC, VMware Standalone Converter, and VMware one at a time, restarting and reinstalling each component and still the XPMode import fails with:
"Failed in import "Windows XP Mode""
That's the only message I get. Now I have gone back to my home machine and went to perform a clean import and received the same message. I would think this was just something going on with my laptop but now on my desktop too? These are both running copies for Version 6 (6.0.5 on one and 6.0.4 on the other).
XP Mode itself, the Windows copy is working without problems on these machines. I haven't notice but perhaps there was some update pushed out to Windows 7 just recently that is breaking the import function. I will have to take a look later when I have some time to see if any new updates were installed recently...
Anyone else also experiencing this? Anyone able to resolve the problem?
Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post!
Update: I have checked the Windows update history on each machine and the only recent updates were Security Essentials definitions updates. I don't think those updates are causing this problem. =(
Can anyone tell me if there is a limitation on the number of XPMode imports you are allowed to do with VMware Player?
Update 2: 04/01/2015 This turned out to be a file permissions problem on both machines. I am not sure what caused either permissions problem or what file or files specifically had a problem.
On one machine I was having a problem with one of my apps that starts via the start menu startup folder, in that it suddenly stopped loading with Windows. A quick Google search indicated it could be a permission problem with the file that was attempting to be started. I knew there was a File Permission repair option in Tweaking.com - Windows Repair All in One tool so I used that one function to repair file permissions on the entire drive. Coincidentally it also fixed the Import XP Mode function in VMware player. Repeated this step on the second machine after accidentally stumbling upon the solution on the first machine and it worked like charm there too.
Its a little scary to know that I suddenly developed file permissions problems on both my machines right around the same time but I am glad to have this function working again (no malware or other compromises found on either machine). Hope if anyone else encounters this problem this thread will save them some time.
This can be closed or marked answered. Thanks to all who took the time to read my post.