Help please!  Cannot open my virtual PC

Hello

Hoping that someone out there can point me in the right direction with an error I'm having with vmfusion 4. All of a sudden, I get the following error message when I try to start.

"/ Users/marmity/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP/Professional.vmwarevm Windows XP Professional.vmx ' is not a valid virtual machine configuration file

I did some googling around this problem but I'm a designer not a techie so the advice is way beyond my comprehension :))

I see that it is a fairly common problem, but yet to see an explanation as to why it happens, but all help to up my virtual PC and running would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance,

Laura

The attached file "Windows_XP_Professional.vmx.zip" contains a new "Windows XP Professional.vmx" file created from the supplied vmware.log file.

With VMware Fusion closed, unzip (double-click on) the file attached "Windows_XP_Professional.vmx.zip" and replace the file "Windows XP Professional.vmx" original by one here.

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