[CentOS] how to export and import VMware servers

[Marko A. Jennings]

On Thu, August 2, 2007 6:27 pm, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> I recently build a CentOS-based VMware server (the free ver) and now
> need to move all of the virtual machines off my old Windows-based
> VMware server (also the free ver) to this next CentOS-based one.
>
> I have successfully FTP'd all of the files to the new CentOS box and
> have even opened the server in the console Window, but cannot "start"
> it.
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Take a look at file and directory permissions.  I've seen this kind of
behavior where some (or all) VMware files were not writable by appropriate
users.