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In VMware Workstation, there is a Change Version command that will change the virtual hardware from the current version to an earlier version. Start VMware, open but do not run the VM you wish to change. Then VM Menu -&gt; Change Version. &nbsp;My setup shows only back to V6.5, so you may have do this a few times with different versions of VMware. &nbsp;...Thinkpads_User<br />

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In VMware Workstation, there is a Change Version command that will change the virtual hardware from the current version to an earlier version. Start VMware, open but do not run the VM you wish to change. Then VM Menu -> Change Version.  My setup shows only back to V6.5, so you may have do this a few times with different versions of VMware.  ...Thinkpads_User


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Hi Thinkpads,<br />
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I am using esx 3.5 with vcenter, i don't see the vm memu-?change version...<br />
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Thanks
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Hi Thinkpads,

I am using esx 3.5 with vcenter, i don't see the vm memu-?change version...

Thanks

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You may have to acquire VMware Workstation to do this if there is no option in ESX 3.5. <br />
... Thinkpads_User<br />

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You may have to acquire VMware Workstation to do this if there is no option in ESX 3.5.
... Thinkpads_User


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Hi All,<br />
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I need to move couple VMs in workstaiton 7 format to ESX 3.5 which only supports workstation 4 format. What would be the best way to do this?<br />
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Thanks
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Hi All,

I need to move couple VMs in workstaiton 7 format to ESX 3.5 which only supports workstation 4 format. What would be the best way to do this?

Thanks

downgrade Workstation 7 to workstation 4

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.