Avoiding This copy of Windows is not genuine when copying a VMware Virtual Machine

I’ve recently updated from the my early 2011 MacBook Pro to a 2016 MacBook Pro with TouchBar. One of the issued I encountered when doing this was when I copied my Windows 7 VM, I was met with the following in the bottom right hand corner:

I thought just setting the MAC address of the new VM to be the same as the original would do the trick:

but that didn’t work. The trick is, when importing the VM onto the new machine, you need to choose “I Moved It” rather than “I Copied It” when prompted by VMWare Fusion:

And no more nasty warnings!

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