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Snapshots and Legacy Virtual Machines
When you power on a VM created in Workstation 3 or 4, a dialog appears giving you the choice to upgrade the virtual machine or to leave the virtual machine unchanged. This section covers both choices:
You must upgrade for full Workstation 5 functionality. If you do not upgrade, Workstation 5 offers you the choice to upgrade whenever you power on the legacy virtual machine.
Upgrading Legacy Virtual Machines to Workstation 5
You can upgrade a legacy virtual machine from Version 3 or 4 to Workstation 5. Any snapshot is upgraded and commands for multiple snapshots are available.
Note: An upgraded snapshot contains disk contents, but memory contents are discarded. When you power on that snapshot, it appears as if the virtual machine had crashed.
Using Legacy VMs without Upgrading
If you choose not to upgrade, you preserve the ability to use the virtual machine in older Workstation 3 or 4, but in Workstation 5 there is no snapshot functionality allowed. When you open a legacy virtual machine in Workstation 5, you see a warning message to this effect.