I have a Virtual Machine that:
1. Was created under Workstation 6, worked fine for months, and left in suspended state
2. Upgraded to Workstation 7 and the image was loaded into 7
3. I never used the image in 7, decided to go back to 6 when I found that upgrade required payment
4. Uninstalled V7, reinstalled V6 and now I cannot run the image. I get the error: "This is a Workstation ACE Edition virtual machine. Please open it in VMware Player."
I followed the instructions in the post:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/933523#933523
However, this did not solve the problem. I get the same error still.
My host OS is Windows XP
Image is Linux Suse 10 and contains data that took me weeks to prepare...
I have never had ACE installed so I'm not sure how this got ACE enabled (I got this machine from a co-worker who left, and checked his licenses and he did not have a license for ACE - could be he dowloaded a trial, but I never used it and don't know if it existed before.)
I tried to install ACE trial but it seemed like a huge amount of work to just get my image running again...
It is possible that the version of 6 I re-installed (6.0.4) is older than what was on this box before I started this mess?
Could that cause this ACE error?
Does anyone know how I can get this thing back to a working state?
