Technical support sorted my predicament politely and efficiently while reinforcing the aforementioned learning point. In hindsight, deactivation should have been done prior to the move but that’s a lesson that I know well now. That meant that I needed help from Adobe’s technical support people top get past the number of PC’s for which the software already had been activated. Windows 7 reactivation was a painless online affair but it wasn’t the same for Photoshop CS5. ![]() ![]() Software like Windows 7 detects that it’s on different hardware so reactivation can be needed. Moving virtual machine software brought about its side effects though. For that to work, VMware Tools needed to be installed in the guest OS (go to Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools to make available a virtual CD from which the installation can be done) as I discovered when trying the same thing with my Windows 8 VM, where I dare not instate VMware Tools due to their causing trouble when I last attempted it. That worked successfully and I now have a speedier more responsive Windows 7 VM for my pains.Īccess to host directories needed reinstatement using a combination of the VMware Shared Folders feature and updating drive mappings in Windows 7 itself to use what appear to it like network drives in the Shared Folders directory on the \\vmware-host domain. The solution was to create a new VM in VirtualBox from the OVA file and use the newly created VMDK files with VMware. However, even selecting OVF compatibility was insufficient for achieving this and the size of the virtual disks meant that the export took a while to run as well. ![]() My hope was that it was as easy as exporting to an OVA file (File > Export Appliance… in VirtualBox) and importing that into VMware (File > Open a VM in Player). Therefore, I decided to try a migration of the VM from VirtualBox to VMware. Seeing how well Windows 8 was running in an VMware Player virtual machine and that was without installing VMware Tools in the guest operating system, I was reminded about how sluggish my Windows 7 VirtualBox VM had become. Moving a Windows 7 VM from VirtualBox to VMware Player 14th October 2012
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