{"id":185,"date":"2010-04-05T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/vmware-snapshots-issue\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:45:44","slug":"vmware-snapshots-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/vmware-snapshots-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare snapshots issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMWare is excellent for malware analysts because it lets you keep snapshots of pristine Virtual machine states and you can revert back to them when you want to.<br \/>\nI encountered a weired error this time around on my Windows XP Pro VM.  Whenever I would try to take any snapshots I would get an error: &#8220;Error taking snapshot: Windows XP Professional.VMX-Snapshot1.vmsn file already exists&#8221;.  When I looked into the folder there was no .vmsn file with that name.  I deleted all the files .lck and .lock files and still to no avail.  Then I saw the files named as<br \/>\nWindows XP Professional-000001-s00?.VMDK.<br \/>\nThe regex for these files was:<br \/>\nWindows XP Professional-00000?-s00?.VMDK<br \/>\nwhere ? is one character replaced by 0-9.  Upon deleting these files, my snapshots started working properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMWare is excellent for malware analysts because it lets you keep snapshots of pristine Virtual machine states and you can revert back to them when you want to. I encountered a weired error this time around on my Windows XP Pro VM. Whenever I would try to take any snapshots I would get an error: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[467,382,466,381,380],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","tag-howto","tag-malware-analysis","tag-reversing","tag-snapshots","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}