Solve "this virtual machine’s policies are too old..."

  
 

Problem: VMWare is upgraded from 8.0 to 9.0. Opening the previous virtual machine has the following error: "This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of vmware workstation"

Workaround : Summarized as follows:

Delete files: *.vmpl file (my is WinXPsp3.vmpl) Open the file: *.vmx (my is WinXPsp3.vmx), delete the following three lines: policy.vm .mvmtid = "52 26 b6 18 34 16 3a 90-c2 79 e4 09 09 5b af 9d"policy.vm.managedVMTemplate = "TRUE"policy.vm.managedVM = "FALSE"

Description :mvmtid Each machine should be different.

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