12Nov/070
VMware Workstation 6 VMs Not Compatible with ESX and Fusion?
I only started using VMware Fusion (for the Mac) and VMware Workstation for Windows a few months ago. While building a virtual machine for the recently released Fedora 8 (Linux) using VMware Worsktation 6 for Windows, I noticed that the compatibility boxes for Fusion and ESX were grayed out. However, if I changed the VM format to VMware Workstation 5, Fusion and ESX were shown as compatible.
Several years ago I noticed that VMware Workstation 5 list compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 but ESX 2.5 did not. I guess there are still relatively larger differences in how VMware Workstation works with various Guest OSes compared to ESX and, now, Fusion.