Bootcamp guest fails to boot after upgrade to MacOS High Sierra

[MattLC]

Thanks Socratis, "still" refers to me trying everything on the discussion thread and not cracking it
As requested:

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MLC$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         180.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                70.0 GB    disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +180.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            159.9 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 33.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.9 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

Before the High Sierra update, the VMDK was working fine

[socratis]

OK, thank you for that. I'm going to need two more things (sorry, I should have asked earlier):

1. The contents of the VMDK. It's a simple text file, so open it with a text editor and post its contents.
2. The output of the command:

   • ls -al /dev/disk*

[MattLC]

OK, here is the info
1/ This is for the newly created one, RawWinDisk:

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# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=139d9dc0
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"

# Extent description
RW 136716288 FLAT "/dev/disk0s3" 0

# The disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="ea379f68-f532-4ea4-9a38-45f2c5414ef9"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"

and this is the for the VM that worked before the upgrade to High Sierra

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# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=99eb8763
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="partitionedDevice"

# Extent description
RW 40 FLAT "win7raw-pt.vmdk" 0
RW 409600 ZERO 
RW 351836784 ZERO 
RW 1269536 ZERO 
RW 1608 ZERO 
RW 136716288 FLAT "/dev/disk0s4" 0
RW 863 ZERO 
RW 33 FLAT "win7raw-pt.vmdk" 40

# The disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="5fe65d93-a175-45bd-8b60-1b9d8f3fe7d4"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="4383770f-3ef3-408d-acda-c52204749f93"
ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders="1024"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads="255"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors="63"

2/

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MLC$ ls -al /dev/disk*
brwxrwxrwx  1 root  operator    1,   0 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk0
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,   1 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk0s1
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,   3 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk0s2
brwxrwxrwx  1 root  operator    1,   2 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk0s3
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,   4 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk1
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,   5 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk1s1
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,   6 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk1s2
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,   7 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk1s3
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,   8 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk1s4
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,   9 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk2
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    1,  10 16 Feb 22:03 /dev/disk2s1