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From: Stefan Farrenkopf <sfarren@gwdg.de>
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Hi,

--On 12. September 2005 15:44:45 +0200 Matthias Apitz <guru@Sisis.de> wrote:

> The goal is that I want to switch over from SuSE 8.1 to FreeBSD
> and if possible copy over as well my VWware disks from the old
> installation to VMware on FreeBSD. Will this work?
>
AFAIK, you can only use your vmware disks with vmware version 3 if they 
have not been created or used by a newer major release of vmware! If you 
use now 4.x or 5.x you will probably not be able to use them, you may check 
the vmware documentation at the vendors site for more information.

best wishes,
Stefan