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. <snip> 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.