VMware Workstation “could not get snapshot information failed to lock the file”
Welcome, Mac User! This Tip shows you Step-by-Step How to Solve VMware Workstation “could not get snapshot information failed to lock the file” Issue on GNU/Linux Computers.
So this Issue is Usually caused from an Existing Lock File over a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot.

Open a Terminal Shell emulator window
Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)Then Navigate into VMware Machine.
cd /[path2]/MyVMwareVM
Next Displace All *.lck Directories.
mkdir lck
mv *.lck lck/
Finally, Restart VM
And now the VMware Workstation “could not get snapshot information failed to lock the file” Issue Should be Happily Solved! :)