So what happens when you change your ONLY admin password for one of your critical VMware images at 2am during a caffeine induced and chocolate supported coding nights? And then forget it?
Enter:CD-konboot-v1.1-2in1 [site] [ISO]
A. Download the CD-ISO
B. Assign the ISO as a CD ROM to the troubled VMWare instance, boot.
C. Hit ESC during Vmware boot, choose to boot from CD
D. Let it do its thing
E. Login with administrator user -- password can be anything -- but once logged in reset the administrator account password
Continue coding.