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Support for Migrating VM's from WS 5.0 to GSX 3.2 is Poor

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Support seems lacking for migrating guest VM's from Workstation 5.0 to GSX Server 3.2. However, I'm just getting familiar with GSX so maybe I'm missing something.

 

What I found were customers coming up with ad-hoc solutions which mainly involve converting a WS 5.0 .vmdk file structure back to the legacy 4.x format using vmware-vdiskmanager and modifying .vmx config file or just attaching the legacy .vmdk to a newly created GSX guest.

 

I tried the latter technique, but the guest freezes early in the boot process (Win2K Server SP 4 guest running on a Win2K Server SP 4 host). (This might have something to do with team NIC’s or the SID). However, even if it worked the process is a kludge.

 

Does anyone know if VMware plans to improve VM migration support in upcoming versions of WS and GSX?


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