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VMWare Workstation or Player RAM Issue under Disk Disguise

You might see the following error when starting your VM:

Operation on file *.vmdk failed.

If the file resides on a remote file system, please make sure your network connection and the server where this disk resides are functioning properly. If the file resides
on a removeable media, reattach the media.

Choose Retry to attempt the operation again.
Choose Abort to terminate this session.
Choose Continue to forward the error to the guest operating system.

This might cause a hangup or app crash - just decrease the RAM on the VM and try again. Helped me!
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