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marius1
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Hardware level

How can I change the hardware level of a VM created with VMware Player in order to run it on a different version of VMware Player?

I noticed I can use VMware Converter, but it takes a long time and duplicates the VM.

Is there any simpler way?

Regards

marius

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a_p_
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Depending on the configuration it may work to just edit the VM's configuration (.vmx) file and set "virtualHW.version" to the required value. If this does not work, you could create a new VM and replace the new VM's virtual disk (.vmdk files) with the ones of the old VM and then edit/replace the .vmdk name in the new VM's .vmx file.

André

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