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  • 1.  Downgrading Hardware after Fusion 4 demo

    Posted Dec 01, 2011 05:26 PM

    Hey all,

    I tried Fusion v4 but didn't really see much of a gain and had a few additional issues.  So I let the trial run to the end then tried to switch back to Fusion v3 for which I have a license.

    Problem - I need to downgrade my hardware in order to run my VMs on Fusion3.  However since the trial period for v4 is expired it won't let me run Fusion 4 to downgrade the VM hardware.

    Has anyone got any ideas?  A little stand alone tool to downgrade the VMs would be great.

    Thanks

    Adrian



  • 2.  RE: Downgrading Hardware after Fusion 4 demo
    Best Answer

    Posted Dec 01, 2011 06:31 PM

    Welcome to the Community,

    I don't think there's an official way to downgrade the virtual hardware. However, it might be sufficient to modify/edit the VM's configuration (.vmx) file and set the virtual hardware version back to 7.

    Before manually editing the configuration files, please consider to backup the VM's folder/package.

    André



  • 3.  RE: Downgrading Hardware after Fusion 4 demo

    Posted Dec 01, 2011 07:35 PM

    Thanks for the help Andre,

    After a few warning messages about incompatibilities (CMOS, Graphics adapter, etc),  the VMs do appear to be working with Fusion3!

    Adrian