The compatibility of a virtual machine with different versions of Fusion and other VMware products is based on its hardware version. The hardware version of a virtual machine is established by the version of Fusion that was used to create the virtual machine.
Consider upgrading the hardware version of your virtual machine if you upgrade Fusion or if you want to use the virtual machine in other VMware products.
You must power off a virtual machine before you change its hardware version.
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The latest virtual machine hardware version available yields the best performance and most reliable behavior from the applications running in your virtual machine. |
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Upgrading the hardware version of your virtual machine improves performance by increasing the memory limit, the number of processors utilized, and the amount of disk space available to the virtual machine. |