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colemanlee
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Does Vmware Player 12 compatible with Vmware Workstation 16 virtual machine data?

Hi,

I have some questions:

  1. Does Vmware Player 12 compatible with Vmware Workstation 16 virtual machine data?
  2. Why the file size of VMware-player-full-16.2.1.exe is 580MB, but Vmware Player 12 is only 78MB?
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scott28tt
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1. Are you asking if you can take a WS16 VM and run it on WS12? Or something else?

 


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wila
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Hi,

Re. size.

VMware Player 16 has a lot more on board than VMware Player 12.

To name just a few things:

- it has VIX pre-installed

- It has all the VMware Tools iso images

- It has container support like Workstation Pro.

- It has REST API support.

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colemanlee
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Hi,
Yes. I want to build a portable and compatible virtual machine in Vmware software. But I only have Vmware Workstation 16 ion my PC, so I want to make a operation system in my Vmware Workstation 16, but I don't know the backwards compatibility of vmdk files in Vmware player 16.
I don't need advanced features, it's ok if system can run normally in Vmware player 16.

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scott28tt
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So you'd have to create a VM using hardware version 12 for it to be backward compatible with Workstation 12: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003746

I don't know how you do that with Workstation Player, but it can be done in Workstation Pro: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/16.0/com.vmware.ws.using.doc/GUID-FD035240-E960-41...

There's some extra guidance in the Workstation Player documentation on how to make a VM more "mobile": https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Player-for-Windows/16.0/com.vmware.player.win.using.do...

Hope that helps.

 


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colemanlee
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Thank you. 

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