“Invalid Virtual Machine Error” when opening virtual machines on VMware Server hosted on 64 bit Windows x64
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January 8, 2008 
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After setting up our new server running Windows 2003 Server R2 x64 and VMware Server V1.04 I was continually getting the message “Invalid Virtual Machine Error”.
This was occurring when I tried to open any of our virtual machine templates in the VMware Console after copying it to the new server. I was able to come up with a solution after searching through the VMware forums.
If you’re using [VMWare Server Console] in local mode, switch to remote mode with a valid Admin-level login and try again.
I simply closed the Console, restarted it and entered my login credentials in remote mode instead of choosing “local mode”. This work-around allowed me to add the server templates without further error!
Just to help the others ->
This approach won’t work for me. I had exact the same issue, but using remote console was not the solution.
I moved the directory with the vm in it to another place in file system and voila – it worked again. No idea why?! There were no file access permission problems.
Ubuntu 7.10 after upgrade vmware to 1.04 and 1.05
the polarizer