Would using the import command after installing VMware3 take care of this? or would one have to do a fresh OS installation after upgrading to VMware3?

Is this feature available to virtual machines that use Boot Camp partitions or only to disk images created in VMWare?

Two questions:

1. Would running a VMware convert on the machine make the disks what they need to be?

2. Could you run a full backup of your existing machine to disc, you create a new basic XP machine and restore the backup into it ?

If it is just the matter of the disk image format, why not let users to convert their images?
Unfortunately Disk Shrink does not have any effect here. Tried...

VMWare please reply us, how we can migrate old disk images to the new format. For most of us reinstalling guest system is NO GO.

oh deep joy. so, all this hype about Fusion 3.0 being a better product than 2.0 is predicated on me converting or rebuilding my virtual machines to take advantage of the new format. why vmware, did you not think to yourselves "hmmm, I wonder if our user base has lots of existing machines they'd like to convert?"...gee, I wonder. couldn't you have put something like a decent converter in there amongst the mix of new stuff coming out with Fusion 3.0 or at least SPELT IT OUT A BIT MORE CLEARLY. oh sorry, if you did that not many people would want to spend money on an upgrade in the droves that they obviously did as it crashed the upgrade portal.

hopefully someone will document a method that works, or (shock) vmware will release a 2.0 -> 3.0 VM converter.

The vmware PC2Mac migration utility is not working for me. There also does not appear to be ANY option to generate a 3.0 VM from my existing PC locally anymore.

3.0 with my 2.0.6 XP VM is actually using on average about 20% MORE memory. On top of that it is running slower. I've spent hours trying to resolve VMware Tools in the new 3.0 VM. One issue after another and what I have after a few days worth of effort is an XP VM that runs slower now than it did last week.

I made the mistake of believing the positive reviews I've read in articles, rather than looking at the forums -- what a mess. I'm reverting back to 2.0.6.

Have you tried using VMware's Converter?

.../j