If you have created your VM using the VMware Converter and now you’re finding out that you chose the wrong target version, simply do this:
1. open your .vmx file
2. replace virtualHW.version = “6” with virtualHW.version = “4”
3. open your disk image (vmdk) (use a hexeditor… you’re opening a gb+ file here)
4. replace ddb.virtualHWVersion = “6” with ddb.virtualHWVersion = “4”
Voila , it should work