VMware Workstation 5 to VMware ESX 3.0
 

i did a vmware image (windows XP) on vmware workstation 5. will it work if i copy it across to a vmware ESX 3.0 server?

It depends on the VM. See this article for more details:-

Moving Virtual Disks to or from ESX Server

K.

use VMWare importer ! ;)

VMware Virtual Machine Importer - VMware

Download VMware Virtual Machine Importer - VMware

its free too !

thank you all for the reply.

i am also looking at the vmkfstools. will give it a go once the files are copied to the ESX server which is in the datacenter. slow link at the moment...

vmkfstools -i blahdee blahdee, should work i think ! not used it to convert a workstation to ESX file before though, depends which version of workstation you are using i think ! and which format they are in.