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Beware moving vmware fusion machines to the free version of vmware server - you can’t

Hopefully someone will correct me on this, UPDATE: some one has corrected me on this, although I haven’t tried what they suggest - see comments below) but I was disappointed to find I couldn’t move a server I set up on VMware fusion on my macbook to vmware server (free version) running on win xp (only temporarily, don’t panic). However, I understand it will run on the paid version and in vmware player. I’m also assuming that I won’t be able to move VMware fusion machines to the free version of vmware server on linux, but haven’t tried (send comments if you know otherwise!).
I actually moved from parallels to VMware fusion on the basis that I would be able to simply move VMs from my mac to a production server, but it looks like unless I cough up for the paid version of VMware server, this isn’t going to happen - very frustrating. Time to investigate KVM

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One Response to “Beware moving vmware fusion machines to the free version of vmware server - you can’t”

  1. Ben G. Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    VMware Fusion makes virtual machines with hardware version 6.

    VMware Server 2 (in beta) and VMware Player 2 support hardware version 6.

    If you need to make your VMware Fusion virtual machine work with VMware Server 1 and older products, you can use the free VMware Converter to convert your virtual machine to the older version. (You can also do this in VMware Workstation.)

    Good luck!

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