VMware Fusion “could not get snapshot information failed to lock the file”

Welcome Mac User! This Tip Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Solve VMware Fusion “could not get snapshot information failed to lock the file” Issue on Mac OS X.

So this Issue is Usually caused from an Existing Lock File over a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. Then Navigate into VMware Machine

   cd /[path2]/MyVMwareVM

3. Next Displace All *.lck Directories

   mkdir lck

   mv *.lck lck/

4. Finally Restart VM

And now the VMware Fusion “could not get snapshot information failed to lock the file” Issue Should be Happily Solved! 🙂