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HOWTO : Restore a vmwesx 2.5 vm & vmdk onto vmwsvr 1.0.0

Steps

  1. snap vm on esx
  2. copy/scp snap files to vmwsvr
  3. edit vm.vmx

replace 

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<tbody><tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left"><pre>scsi0.virtualDev = <font color="red">"vmxlsilogic"</font>
with scsi0.virtualDev = <font color="red">"lsilogic"</font></pre></td></tr></tbody>
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or replace 

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<tbody><tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left"><pre>scsi0.virtualDev = <font color="red">"vmxbuslogic"</font>
with scsi0.virtualDev = <font color="red">"buslogic"</font></pre></td></tr></tbody>
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  1. edit vm.vmx remove any vdisk: prefix from reference to vmdk
  2. browse and add vm to vmwsvr inventory
  3. power on vm