When a Legacy Template Is Converted to a Virtual Machine, the Resulting Virtual Machine Must Be Registered on the Host Where the Template Was Created
Details
This issue occurs when converting a template stored on a VMFS2 volume to a virtual machine and attempting to register the resulting virtual machine on a host different from the one where the template was created. Doing so yields the following error:
Unable to access virtual machine configuration file.
Solution
Register the resulting virtual machine on the host where the template was created.
