Can a hard poweroff / outage / crash corrupt VMware snapshots?

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Published on 2012-11-13T18:34:48Z Indexed on 2012/11/14 23:04 UTC
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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?

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