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Choosing Take Ownership does nothing but pop up the alert again.
You must choose Cancel and hand-delete the lock file directory from your copy.
This issue has been reported to VMware and a remedy is expected in the next major release.
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One way to work-around the above issue of the Lock Directory being present even when the VM guest is powered off is to close the tab containing reference to the virtual machine. There is an option, "Remember opened virtual machines between sessions." which disables creation of these tabs. Unfortunately due to another defect, un-checking this option disables the Quit command and the close window function (controlled by the "X" in the window manager decorations.)
This defect is also known to VMware and will be fixed in an upcoming release.
To get Quit working again, use the File->Close command and re-run vmware-config.pl
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- Time Machine, Mac OS X 10.5's built-in backup solution, will duplicate any virtual machine that has been run since the last backup. As virtual machines tend to be large, they might take up a considerable amount of space on your backup drive. For more information see the release announcement from the Fusion Blog.
- Full screen mode interfers with opening the spotlight search dialog and Spaces. These bugs have been reported to Apple.
- For additional known issues, see the VMware Fusion Release Notes.