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

1) snap vm on esx
1) copy/scp snap files to vmwsvr
1) edit vm.vmx
replace

scsi0.virtualDev = "vmxlsilogic"
with
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

or replace

scsi0.virtualDev = "vmxbuslogic"
with
scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"

1) edit vm.vmx
remove any vdisk: prefix from reference to vmdk
1) browse and add vm to vmwsvr inventory
1) power on vm
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