The solution to the failure of startup caused by abnormal shutdown of VMWARE virtual machine

Many people install VMWARE virtual machine software on computers for various purposes, or directly install VMWARE on servers, but sometimes due to various abnormal conditions, the computer may shut down abnormally, and it is too late to shut down the virtual machine, or forget to shut down the virtual machine first, resulting in configuration files not updated in time, VMWARE virtual machine appears the following error message ERROR:'This virtual machine appears to be in use'. So what do we do in this situation?

In fact, it is very simple, just delete all the.lck directories under the virtual machine installation directory, and then restart the virtual machine to restore normal.

Note:

The.lck file is a disk lock file of VMWARE software. Since the virtual disk (.vmdk) itself has a disk protection mechanism, in order to prevent data loss and performance reduction caused by multiple virtual machines accessing the same virtual disk (.vmdk) at the same time, the virtual machine uses the file extension.lck (disk lock) to lock the virtual disk (.vmdk) every time the virtual machine is started. The.lck (disk lock) file is automatically deleted when the virtual machine is shut down. The error message appears the next time the virtual machine is started, probably due to various abnormal shutdowns of the virtual machine before the virtual machine has had time to delete the.lck (disk lock) file on the system.