if your VMWARE fusion virtual machine hangs on 'Restoring virtual machine state'..

Thanks... I shall keep that filed away in case it happens..

Ah hah! Thank you so much. That did the trick. Three tries to resume VM hung 7/8 of the way on the progress bar. That's the second time I unplugged my external hard drive before the state was finished saving. So glad it could be fixed

I knew it would help someone :)

Add another to your list, thanks.

i am having the same problem. can you give me step by steps to get inside the .vmware bundle and then how to delete the .vmss file. I can't seem to find any of these things. HELP!

I'm currently having this problem and it's killing me that I can't get into windows. However, I don't know how to "get inside the .vmwarevm bundle and delete the .vmss file. " Could you please help me out! Thanks!

You need to right click on the file (or cntrl + click) and select 'show package contents'. Let me know if you still have any problems.

thanks! works like a charm

Thank soooooooooo much for this!

I recently contacted VMware with this problem and all they suggested was to purchase a support request.

Brilliant! I was scared, but that worked perfectly. Thank you very much for saving me.

Hello I'm new to this blog... I am having a problem with my vmmare player. I have downloaded it in my vm ware fusion. But when I click on it to launch the installer, a little box comes up that says unable to install in this virtual machine. Can you help me? Also I read your earlier post about the virtual machine restoring to a save state. I cannot find the .vmss file to resolve this problem can you any one help me with this?