To address this issue please do perform mention stops do not skip any steps.
- Make sure the VM is power-off and do take a backup of VMX file
- Find the host version with the command "vmware -vl"
- Check hardware version from vmx file
- #cat Virtual-Machine.vmx
encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "18" -
- Validate the version that should be on the host using KB: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003746
- Once validated, change the virtualHW.version to the supported hardware version.
Example:
virtualHW.version = "14"
6. Re-register the VM on the host, either from the command line or else from GUI
command to register the VM
# vim-cmd solo/registervm /vmfs/volumes/datastore_name/VM_directory/VM_name.vmx