Vmware converter 5.5 download

I have already reported on that feature when the public beta of the product went out few months ago. You can read the full release notes and you can find the user guide in PDF format through the links below:.

VMware Converter 5. Supports vSphere 5. In this release of Converter on can choose the destination version of Virtual Machine Version 7 and Version 8 only.

It means that the version 4 of Virtual machine version is no longer supported by this release of VMware converter, so in case you need to P2V to older version of Virtual machine, you must use the older standalone version of VMware converter for the job.

And in case you were not informed, you can import Hyper-V virtual machines, but only the ones which are powered off. Also VM with snapshots cannot be converted either. VMware virtual machines Powered-off hosted virtual machines running on the following VMware products:.

Compressed disks are not supported. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers are not supported. You can download the free software from VMware Website here. Connect on: Facebook. Feel free to network via Twitter vladan. You can download it here. VMware Converter free software is used for converting physical systems into virtual machines, but can also be used for reconverting cloning existing VMs.

This might be usefull when you run free ESXi without vCenter and can't clone, or with a situations where you want to downgrade virtual hardware of some of your VMs. You can use the VMware converter to downgrade virtual hardware version. You would want to do that in case you're managing your VI from a Windows based vSphere client and wanting to change the configuraiton of the VM.

Since Virtual hardware 10 vmx you can't edit the configuration of the VM. You can start or stop the VM but no modification.

For VMs which runs locally on your desktop in VMware player or Workstation, you have an option to downgrade the virtual hardware through a menu in VMware Workstation. I already wrote about that option in my article here — VMware Workstation 10 can also downgrade virtual hardware.

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