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Re: Unable to Obtain Hardware Information For The Selected Machine

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I have solved the problem (or at least discovered what would work).

1. You cannot simply copy the VM to another computer and convert it.  That is what I was trying to do.  The only VMware software that was loaded on the 'holding' computer was the VMware Standalone Converter.  Not enough apparently.

 

2. I had to install VMware Workstation 8 on the 'holding' computer.  Opening the vm in VMware Workstation 8 was a challenge in itself ! I had to hack the configuration file to get past a file permissions error.  That was frustrating.

 

3. After I was finally able to Open the copied vm into Workstation 8, I closed it out, and then the Conversion went without a hitch (sort of).
  I'm guessing that the conversion needs to grab hardware information from the machine holding the vm AFTER it has been Opened in Workstation 8 !

 

The conversion took longer than I expected.  One vm took several hours.

 

I then learned that the management client only last for 60 days, and then I was limited to hardware version 8 or 9.

 

called 'free' offering.  It took WAY TOO MUCH effort to get this operational.  VMware needs to either improve the product or improve the documentation.  I lost a valuable week getting this going, and my peers, who didn't have the same setup as me think I'm a dunce for taking this long and encountering the issues I did.

 

Not impressed.


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