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If you use V6 of workstation you should be able to convert it.<br />
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There is also a convert tool you can DL for 5 I believe
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If you use V6 of workstation you should be able to convert it.

There is also a convert tool you can DL for 5 I believe

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Another Option<br />
<a href="http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/vmimporter_v20.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/vmimporter_v20.html</a>
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Another Option
http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/vmimporter_v20.html [http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/vmimporter_v20.html]

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Thanks... &nbsp;thats a relief! &nbsp;I thought there had to be a way!
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Thanks...  thats a relief!  I thought there had to be a way!

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Actually, if you just have a .VHD file for say a Windows Server 2008 demo ... VMWare Workstation can NOT open/convert it. It's wants the .VMX first. Just FYI.
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Actually, if you just have a .VHD file for say a Windows Server 2008 demo ... VMWare Workstation can NOT open/convert it. It's wants the .VMX first. Just FYI.

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I created a MS Virtual PC vhd image for my customer who is running VMWare ESX Server. &nbsp;My customer is telling me there is a problem with converting my VPC image file to a compatible VMWare image. &nbsp;<br />
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Isn't there a straightforward way to do this? &nbsp;I was thinking that the conversion was supported natively by VMWare ESX server (although I've never used it). &nbsp;VMWare Workstation which reads my VHD images just fine.. is ESX Server that different?<br />
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Whats the recommended migration strategy experts?
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I created a MS Virtual PC vhd image for my customer who is running VMWare ESX Server.  My customer is telling me there is a problem with converting my VPC image file to a compatible VMWare image.  

Isn't there a straightforward way to do this?  I was thinking that the conversion was supported natively by VMWare ESX server (although I've never used it).  VMWare Workstation which reads my VHD images just fine.. is ESX Server that different?

Whats the recommended migration strategy experts?

Virtual PC VHD to VMWare ESX Server

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.