Identification of VM server and Vm Workstation Virtual System Files

When you use VMware Server to open the Virtual Machine file of VMware station, the following error occurs:

Error message: configuration file was created by a VMware product with more features than this version

 

Solution:

How to open a VMware Workstation 6.x Vm with VMware Server 1.x
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although we have some user licenses for VMware Workstation 6.0 at work, I still prefer the server product, as it allows you to run VMS in the background as the local system account. additionally, the server product can be configured to automatically startup/shutdown VMS based on the needs of the host. either vmware workstation does not support this feature or I am not looking in the right place.
I tried to open a VM that I created with VMware Workstation 6 with the latest stable VMware Server version, 1.0.7. VMware Server threw an error that the "configuration file was created by a VMware product with more features than this version ".
phooey!
I was able to get around this error by browsing on my host OS filesystem to the base directory for this Vm, then I updated the main VM config file (vmname. vmx) and the master VM disk config file (vmname. vmdk)

For the VM configuration file (. vmx), I changed the line:
Virtualhw. Version = "6 ″
To
Virtualhw. Version = "4 ″

For the VM master disk file (. vmdk), I changed the line:
DDB. virtualhwversion = "6 ″
To
DDB. virtualhwversion = "4 ″

Now VMware Server 1.0.7 can run the VM! Everything appears to run fine, and I have not seen any negative side effects.