Workstation User’s Manual
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3Copyallthefilesinthevirtualmachinedirectorytothenewlocation.
Tomovethevirtualmachine’sfilestoanotherhost,ifyoudonothaveanetwork
connectiontothenewhost,useasharednetworkdirectory,burnthefilesontoa
DVD,orusesomeotherstoragemediathathasen
oughdi
skspace.
Formoreinformationaboutthefilesthatyouaremoving,see“FilesThatMakeUp
aVirtualMachine”onpage 97.
4Onthenewhost,startWorkstation,chooseFile>Open,andbrowsetothevirtual
machine’sconfiguration(.vmx)fileinitsnewlocation.
5 (Optional)Ifyo
uaremovingthevi
rtualmachinetoadifferentlocationonthesame
host,removethevirtualmachinefromtheFavoriteslistandadditagainusingthe
newlocation.
6Whenyouarecertainthatthevirtualmachineinthenewlocationworkscorrectly,
deletethevirtualmachinefilesfromtheol
dlocation,ifneeded.
Ifthevirtualmachineinthenewlocationisnotworkingcorrectly,examinethe
virtualmachineintheoriginallocationtodetermineifyoumissedcopyingsome
files.Somefilesmightresideoutsideofthevirtualmachinedirectory.
Usethevirtualmachinesettingseditor(VM>Settings>Hardware)toselec
t
dev
icesanddeterminewhetheranyassociatedfilespointtolocationsthatcannot
beaccessedfromthenewlocation.
WorkstationgeneratesadifferentMACaddressforthevirtualnetworkadapterwhen
youmoveavirtualmachinetoanewhostcomputerortoadifferentdirectoryonthe
samehostcom
puter.AnewMACaddressisalsogeneratedwhenyourenamea
directoryinthepathtothevirtualmachine’sconfigurationfile.See“Maintainingand
ChangingtheMACAddressofaVirtualMachine”onpage 308.
Moving an Older Virtual Machine
IfyoucreatedavirtualmachinebyusingWorkstation2.xor3.x,youmustupgradeit
toatleastWorkstation4.Workstation7.0doesnotsupportWorkstation2or3virtual
machines.
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