Moving and sharing virtual machines – VMware GSX 3 User Manual

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Moving and Sharing Virtual
Machines

The following sections provide information on how to move your virtual machines
from one host to another, or elsewhere on the same host, plus recommendations on
how to share virtual machines with other users:

Moving a VMware GSX Server 3 Virtual Machine on page 172

Moving a GSX Server 2 Virtual Machine on page 175

Moving Older Virtual Machines on page 178

Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users on page 183

Note: When you move a virtual machine to a new host computer or to a different
directory on the same host computer — or when you rename a directory in the path
to the virtual machine’s configuration file — VMware GSX Server generates a different
MAC address for each virtual Ethernet adapter (unless you specified the MAC address
manually). For additional information, see

Maintaining and Changing the MAC

Address of a Virtual Machine

in the VMware GSX Server Virtual Machine Guide.

For information about moving virtual machines between VMware products, see the
VMware Virtual Machine Mobility Planning Guide on the VMware Web site.

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