I am gearing up for a large consulting engagement, and I needed to move two virtual machines created with VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro to VMware Server on my Lenovo Thinkpad. When I did this, and tried to start them, I crashed vmware-hostd.exe.
To fix the situation, you will need to edit the *.vmx file with a text editor and remove the following line:
serial0.fileType = “thinprint”
VMware Server does not support this feature, and crashes when you try to import the virtual machine. Before your virtual machine can be started, you will need to go into the Services and restart the VMware Host Service.
