Take the 2-minute tour ×  Assuming a host system is running
virtual machines (in VMware Workstation) and all their data is
on a reliable storage (so no data corruption due to hdd
failure).  If that host crashes (kernel panic) while a vm is
running, files on the virtual filesystem could be corrupted. But
there's a snapshot (of the vm), taken before the crash. Is it
safe to assume that reverting to the snapshot, the vm will be
back in a clean state - or is there any way that this snapshot
could have been corrupted by the crash?  share|improve this
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theoretically any file that was open for write, or had its
metadata in a write state could be corrupted by a kernel panic,
but if the files were not likely being used at the time, they
are likely integral.  to ensure this in future, if you are
really worried about it, you may want to look into calculating a
hash on the snapshots after they are completed, so that you can
tell if they are still integral when