Nothing weird about filtering out bad things when remembering the past In any case, he's always welcome back.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
Lessons learned the hard way: apparently VMware's bridged networking driver is not capable of dealing with high-demand scenarios (lots of open connections and high-speed transfers) and will crash eventually. And we know what happens when a kernel-mode driver crashes
This will set me back a day or two... oh well.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
How to recover a crashed VMware virtual machine that was running in nonpersistent mode when the redo data still exists.
- blank the value of scsiX:Y.mode in its .vmx file
- change the value of scsiX:Y.fileName to point to the REDO file
- blank the value of scsiX:Y.redo
- start VM
- recover your data and shut down
- revert the value of scsiX:Y.mode back to "independent-nonpersistent"
- revert the value of scsiX:Y.fileName to point to the parent virtual disk
- blank the value of scsiX:Y.redo
- delete the old, lingering REDO file
To VMware, a REDO file is simply a sparse disk image where the sectors that don't exist are filled by the parent virtual disk. scsiX:Y may be sata or ide depending on bus type, use your imagination. And if you haven't yet enabled full memory dumps and learned to use Volatility Framework... do.
Okay, time to grab something to eat then start fixing this.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
Some observations.
- Notepad may not store its text contiguously in memory, and can do so as either ANSI or UTF-16 irrespective of the original encoding.
- cmd.exe stores the console buffer as a contiguous stream of text with no line breaks and spaces filling unused areas.
- PhotoFiltre splits the DIB header from the actual image contents in memory, making recovery extremely difficult; fortunately I had no unsaved images loaded.
- Firefox stores the URLs of open tabs contiguously; order is jumbled and some garbage may follow the addresses, but they're there.
- There's a Volatility plugin to analyze virtual machines by scanning the host's memory dump, but it hasn't been updated since version 2.2.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
Recovery nearly complete. Some reading material for whoever cares follows
https://apprize.best/microsoft/internals_1/7.html
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
How I listened to this sort of music every day for several years, I don't know. Thankfully I'm all grown up and stuff now, yes.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
I've also been there and I just can't understand why at this point. I really took a hard turn towards becoming a metalhead at some point. I can still enjoy some of these though. Just not full days or often anymore
Last edited by Sazzy; 26.02.22 at 23:36.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
I used to listen Armin Van Buuren all the time, every day non stop! Now, I just listen when I'm in the mood!
Armin, Tiesto, ATB, Sander van Doorn, Gareth Emery, Lange... Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren...
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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