Virtual machines created with WS6.5 have different virtual hardware. You would need Player 2.5, when VMWare releases it. If you still have access to WS6.5, open your virtual machine in WS6.5, then from the VM menu, choose change or upgrade virtual machine. Then change it to WS6.0.

You can't download Player2.5. It hasn't been released yet. It is the version included with Workstation 6.5 beta, but hasn't been released as a separate product yet. Thus the need to run your virtual machine through WS6.5b to change the virtual hardware version down to WS6.0/Player2.0.

I'm sorry, I'm not a linux person so I don't know if I can help you much. But you must uninstall Player in order to install Workstation. Make sure you've shut down all virtual machines. I'd recommend a reboot of the physical host as well.

Do you just have any other machine that you can temporarily install WS6.5 on. All you need 6.5 for is to downgrade the virtual machine, then copy the downgraded virtual machine back to the host with Player2.0. Even a Windows box to load WS6.5 as the downgrade will work as long as you do not have snapshots.

Just copy the directory containing the virtual machine back to your Vista host. You do not have to run the virtual machine, just open it in Workstation and choose to change the virtual hardware version.


Once the virtual machine is downgraded back to WS6.0/Player2.0, then copy the virtual machine back to the Redhat host and run it in Player. If Player2.0. Possibly even reinstalling Player 2.0 if the existing installation is messed.

But that's my point, change the virtual machine, not the host.


I'm an independant contractor. No "team" here. Hopefully someone else with more Linux experience can give you other ideas, if necessary.