move a VM between Mac and Windows

I have a guest windows 7 VM sitting on Mac OS 10.6, using VMware fusion 3.0.

Is the portable guest VM file, so that I could take on a windows host running VMware (workstation, I guess)?

Thank you!

> What would be the advantage to export as an OVF instead of just copying the file to the virtual machine

There is no benefit, except if you're paid by the hour - export via ovf does 3 steps - copy the entire directory or package is only one step

through FVO:
1. export to the FVO
2. copy new host via a network or a portable drive
3. import of the FVO

without the FVO
1. copy new host via a network or a portable drive

before starting the first virtual machine - vmx - open with notepad and adjust the MAC-typical of Windows style paths

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