Corrupted VM Image and MBP issues

December 2, 2008 · 42 Comment s

For those at ColdFusionCamp last week, and anyone following Twitter, they all saw/heard about the issues I was experiencing with my MacBookPro. The end result was a flashing folder during boot rather than the Apple icon, and ultimately me having to borrow Mark Drew's MBP instead.

My presentation at ColdFusionCamp was on "ColdFusion and PDF: Improving Your Workflow". Part of my demo involved showing off LiveCycle Designer, which unfortunately only runs in Windows. This meant I had to put together a VM instance using VM Fusion to run XP. Big deal. I do this all the time.

Well after getting home from Munich I managed to get my MBP up and running again and took advantage of this to get all my MP3s onto a portable hard drive as well as some Work in Progress reports. All code, database scripts, documents etc are kept in Subversion on one of our servers or on one of our file servers (which gets backup up). Ultimately, if I couldn't retrieve anything from the MBP it wouldn't have mattered.

In the process of getting my MP3s etc I decided to physically remove the VM instances. Click and Delete.

Well, since I did that I've not had a single freeze or crash on my MBP. Hopefully I'm not tempting fate here, but it looks like a corrupted VM Image was causing all my issues. Saying that, I may take advantage of the situation and get the MBP checked out anyway (even if it is only 7 months old).

 

Tags: What the F%*k?

42 response s so far ↓

Leave a Comment

Leave this field empty: