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WoodyZ wrote:
The .log file does show the failure but there are many lines of text for same that I cannot decipher. I had hoped to send the file to support @ VMWare but as mentioned in my initial post, I do not seem to have access to same...
If your comfortable with it you can attach here and one of us will try and help. If you need to sanitize it a bit first, like replace a user name with something generic etc, that's fine. Just attach it as a file, not copy and paste the contents!
I cannot locate the log file I reviewed after the upgrade, in which it showed all 3 VMs and that is what I was referring to -- the individual VM log does not exist for the now inaccessible VM, which makes sense since it was inaccessible
...but I wonder if the issue is not related to when I first setup that VM: I think I cloned it but then determined that it needed more disk space than the source of the clone. I had to use an expander for the partiition. I wonder if that got kaboshed by the upgrade as I see that it now shows no HD. Maybe I would be better off doing a clean install of a new VM -- at least the data is backed up and can be recovered to same.