Really Old VMware Conversion

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Hello!

We have a VM thats about 6 years old and it was running on a really old version of VMware workstation. Well That machine died and we need to convert it to run on our V-sphere cluster now.

We were able to get the files off of the drive, however VMware converter doesnt even recognize the format because its so old. The converter wants a VMX fie while the VM only has a CFG file.

How can I convert this to run on our ESX boxes?

[oreeh]

FYI: this thread has been moved to the Converter forum.

Oliver Reeh[/i]

[VMware Communities User Moderator|http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-2444][/i]

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post details - VMserver and Workstation can handle those files if you know how to do it

read

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-undoable-mode-for-vmserver.html

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-virthw-modes.html




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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

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Heres the first 3 lines of the config.

#!/usr/bin/vmware

config.version = "6"

virtualHW.version = 2

What else would be useful?

[continuum]

at the very least I need to know if you have a plain-disk or a cow-disk.

Post directory listing including size and post the vmdks - in case you have small ones that can be posted.

Did you try my suggestion with

virtualHW.allowVeryOldVersion = "TRUE" already ?




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