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VMware ESX Server Administration Guide
9. If you imported the virtual machine from ESX Server 1.5.2, GSX Server 2.5.1 or
Workstation 3.2 or earlier, upgrade the virtual hardware.
Make sure the virtual machine is powered off. On the Status Monitor page, click
the arrow to the right of the terminal icon ( ) and choose Configure
Hardware. On the Hardware tab, click Upgrade Virtual Hardware, then click OK
to upgrade the hardware.
10. If you imported a Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP virtual disk from
Workstation 4.0 or GSX Server 2.5, you need to modify one entry in the virtual
machine’s configuration file before you power on the virtual machine.
To modify the configuration file, follow the steps at Modifying the Configuration
File Directly (Advanced Users Only) on page 141. In the configuration file, look for
the option scsi0.virtualDev and change the value from vmxlsilogic
to vmxbuslogic.
11. Boot your virtual machine in a remote console and install VMware Tools and the
network driver in the virtual machine. For more information, see Installing
VMware Tools in the Guest Operating System on page 46.
Some guest operating systems display messages about detecting hardware
changes and require you to reboot the virtual machine. This occurs because
VMware ESX Server uses an emulation for chipsets and BIOS that is slightly
different from those used by other VMware products.
Exporting Virtual Machines
You can export a virtual machine to Workstation 4, provided it is a uniprocessor virtual
machine; multiprocessor (SMP) virtual machines cannot be exported to Workstation 4.
If the virtual disks are in undoable mode, you must commit the changes in the redo
log before exporting the virtual machine in order for your changes to carry over.
However, Workstation 4 does not support the LSILogic SCSI adapter. To use the SCSI
adapter in the virtual machine, you must switch back to the BusLogic adapter.
ESX Server 2.1 does not support exporting virtual machines to ESX Server 1.5 or earlier,
VMware Workstation 3.2 earlier or VMware GSX Server 2.5 or earlier.
You should uninstall VMware Tools from a virtual machine before exporting it for use
in Workstation or GSX Server.
Use the vmktools command in the Service Console to export virtual disks
associated with a virtual machine. For details, see the section on using the -
exportfile option of vmkfstools in Basic vmkfstools Options on page 297.