Urs Meli

Today I found a way to shoot yourself in the foot with vmware server.

It is very simple, if you store your vmware images on USB drives like I do.
I tried to be smart. To copy some big files in the vm I mounted a second USB drive into the vm.

Everything worked fine.
When I went home I stopped the vm's and removed the drives.

Next time I startet the vm windows xp accidentially changed my drive letters.
Now the when the vm tried to start, it took over the USB drive which hosted the vm.

BOOOM.

The vm crashed with a very strange error message (I forgot to take a screenshot).
The USB was not accessible in windows anymore too.