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Migrating a virtual machine to an upgraded version of Workstation

To upgrade a virtual machine created with Workstation 2.0 to Workstation 3.0 you can:

Before using an existing virtual machine under VMware Workstation 3.0, you should take a few precautions.

If you are migrating an IDE virtual disk, use the Configuration Editor (Settings > Configuration Editor) to be sure your new configuration is set up to use an IDE disk. If it is set up for a SCSI disk, take these steps:

  1. Remove the SCSI disk and add an IDE disk (at IDE 0:0 if it is your boot disk).
  2. Note the name of the .vmdk file for this new IDE virtual disk.
  3. Delete the .vmdk file created by the Configuration Editor and copy the virtual disk you are migrating into its place -- using the same file name as the file you just deleted.

Once you have the old virtual disk working under Workstation 3.0, you can update it to the new disk format by selecting Settings > Upgrade Disk. The new format provides improved disk I/O performance.

Note: Virtual machines created with the Experimental release of VMware Workstation will not run in the current production release version.

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