You Must Run Workstation as an Administrator to Create a Virtual Machine from a Windows Vista Physical Machine
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You Must Run Workstation as an Administrator to Create a Virtual Machine from a Windows Vista Physical Machine

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Article ID: 342931

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Products

VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

On Windows Vista hosts, if you want to use File > Import to create a virtual machine from a physical machine, you must run Workstation as an administrator.

Environment

VMware Workstation 8.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation 7.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation 6.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation 9.x (Windows)

Resolution

Start Workstation by right-clicking the desktop icon and choosing Run as administrator.
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