Hi Siva,
Thanks for joining the discussion, always a pleasure hearing from you. I just rechecked that the .vmx file from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103286/temp/freeDos.7z actually shows
...
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "8"
...
So hardware version should not be the problem here, but very good point, thanks for that :-)
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Thomas G.