Workstation User’s Manual
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Usevirtualmachinesorsystemimagescreatedwithproductsfromother
companiessuchasNorton,Symantec,andStorageCraft.
Convertvirtualappliancesthatuseopenvirtualizationformat(OVF).
Workstationprovidesthreewaystoconvertavirtualmachineorsystemimage:
UsingtheFile>Opencommandconvertsandopensavirtualmachineorsystem
imagequickly.Workstationusesdefaultsettingstomaketheconversion
automatically,withnoinputrequiredfromyou.TheoriginalMicrosoftVirtualPC,
SymantecBackupExecSystemRecovery,StorageCraftShadowProtect,orAcronis
TrueImage(.vmc,.spf,.sv2i,or.tib)f
ileisunc
hanged.
Forallsupportedfiletypesexcept.ovfand.ovafiles,theFile>Opencommand
createsalinkedclonewhenitopensthefile.Ifyouopenavirtualappliancethat
uses.ovfor.ovafiles,Workstationcreatesafullclone.
Ifyouattempttoope
navirtualmac
hineorsystemimagethatispassword
protected,youarepromptedforthepassword,andWorkstationcreatesafull
clone.
UsingtheFile>ImportorExportcommandstartstheConversionwizard.Itlets
youspecifytheconvertedvirtualmachine’slocation,whetherornottheconverted
virtualmachinesharesvirtualdiskswiththeoriginalvirtualmachineorsystem
image,andwhichversionsofVMwareproductstheconvertedvirtualmachineis
tobecom
patiblewith.
UsingFile>ImportWindowsXPModeVMcommandimportsaWindowsXP
ModevirtualmachineonWindows7hosts.See“ImportaWindowsXPMode
VirtualMachine”onpage 145.
ThewizardcreatesacompletelynewVMwarevirtualmachinebasedontheinput
virtualmachineorsystemimage.ThenewlymigratedVMw
arevirtualmachineretains
theconfigurationoftheoriginalvirtualmachineorimage.
Themigrationprocesscanbenondestructive,soyoucancontinuetousetheoriginal
virtualmachinewithMicrosoftVirtualPC,ortheoriginalsystemimagewithSymantec
BackupExecSystemRecovery.However,torunanewVMwarevirtualmac
hineonthe
samenetworkastheoriginalVirtualPCvirtualmachine,youmustmodifythenetwork
nameandIPaddressononeofthevirtualmachinessotheoriginalandnewvirtual
machinescancoexist.
ForMicrosoftVirtualPCandMicrosoftVirtualServervirtualmachines,youhavethe
optionofsharingthesou
rcevi
rtualharddisk(.vhd)files.ThismeansthattheVMware
virtualmachinecanwritedirectlytotheoriginal.vhdfilesinsteadofVMwarevirtual
harddisk(.vmdk)files.
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