Hi teox,
I assume, your guest OS is redhat, so I would say:
1) Alfresco works with paths, if you change partitions, the mountpoints may change, which might mess up the installation, but thas has nothing to do with Alfresco but with linux filesystem, I would say. I would be surprised if Alfresco goes that deep to care about mount points, though
2) Logs for failed Alfresco are
<alf_home>/alfresco.log
<alf_home>/tomcat/logs/catalina.out (for tomcat bundles)
database log in /etc/ log (somewhere there for mysql DB)
3) Did you use the standardsettings for VMware converter ? It should not move applications into different locations. Could happen with windows systems tough, counting partititions differently (making D to C etc.) In that case, check alfresco.bat, the custom- settings and the database installation for correct paths. The probem is not Alfrescobased, but general when moving apps. So better check everything or reinstall.
I hope that helped,
Norgan