"File not found" when launching vfuse-produced VMs for the first time

[chilcote]

"File not found" when launching vfuse-produced VMs for the first time

[chilcote]

I haven't been able to replicate this particular issue, but your example from slack pointed me to a different issue with how the path expansion is happening.

[ryandesign]

I see similar:

Mounting osx_custom_151220-10.11.2-15C50.hfs.dmg
OS X version is 10.11.2
VMware hardware version 8 does not officially support 10.11
Using VMware Fusion path: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app
Converting DMG to VMDK
Populating VMX file
Unmounting Base OS DMG
VMware Fusion VM created at ./osx_custom_151220-10.11.2-15C50.vmwarevm

But ./osx_custom_151220-10.11.2-15C50.vmwarevm/osx_custom_151220-10.11.2-15C50.vmdk was not created.

I assume vmware-rawdiskCreator or vmware-vdiskmanager encountered an error during the attempt to convert, but vfuse did not detect or report the error. When I tried running the relevant vmware-vdiskmanager command manually, I received an illuminating error message:

Failed to convert disk: An error occurred while writing a file; the disk is full. Data has not been saved. Free some disk space and try again (0x8).

[chilcote]

How much free space do you have on your disk?

[ryandesign]

Certainly not enough!

[chilcote]

Fair 'nuff. I'll do some tests.

[ryandesign]

It's working fine now that I've pointed it at a disk with enough free space. vfuse should detect and report errors thrown by vmware-vdiskmanager and not continue on as if nothing happened.

[chilcote]

try the latest commit, as it will now report the error and exit.

[homebysix]

Guess what, it's working for me now! The .vmdk file is present inside the bundle, as expected, and the VM boots successfully.

In addition to updating to the latest commit, I also re-downloaded the source AutoDMG file. I suspect it (and others) may have been corrupted.

[ryandesign]

Thank you @chilcote, error reporting is working now:

Mounting osx_custom_151220-10.11.2-15C50.hfs.dmg
OS X version is 10.11.2
VMware hardware version 8 does not officially support 10.11
Using VMware Fusion path: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app
Converting DMG to VMDK
Error: Failed to convert disk: An error occurred while writing a file; the disk is full. Data has not been saved. Free some disk space and try again (0x8).
Unmounting Base OS DMG

It does still leave a .vmwarevm folder containing a disk-link.vmdk file; maybe those could be cleaned up in case an error occurs.

[chilcote]

Should remove the vmpath now with the last commit, thanks.