How can I access the files from a crashed virtual machine?

[harbdans]

Hi everyone.

I am running a ds 918+ which had a virtual machine also running dsm. After swapping around some hard drives the virtual machine seems to have crashed. I can't remember exactly what the error was, but it was something about a cluster crash. It gave me an option to repair the cluster which I tried, but it didn't work. Anyway - now when I open VMM nothing shows up at all. No error codes and no sign of any virtual machines. I want to access the files from that virtual machine as I see no reason why they would have been deleted. Is that possible? I know they aren't stored anywhere obvious in the GUI, but can I access them through SSH or by plugging in the hard drive into another Linux machine or something like that?

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks.

 

[Telos]

How to recover data on a PC when Synology NAS malfunctions - Synology Knowledge Center

 

[harbdans]

Thanks for the reply. My NAS was actually still running DSM 6.1. I'm going to try and load the drive into a Linux machine and see what happens.

EDIT: so I used SSH to access the NAS instead as I assume it would have the same outsome. I could see all the directories that are hidden from the GUI but I still cant find any hint of the files stored on the virtual machine. Any ideasA?