VMware Fusion PC Migration Assistant requires HFS

The skinny :

The VMware Fusion PC Migration Assistant must have an HFS-formatted drive as the destination for the physical-to-virtual conversion.

The fat :

Thanks VMware for the helpful error messages - not!

Here's the error message I got trying to convert a four-and-a-half-year-old laptop to a virtual machine :

"VMware Fusion was unable to share a folder to receive your migrated pc"

Hmmm.

Retry.

Same problem.

Google.

An obtuse comment, which leads me to suspect... voila!

I was trying to convert the physical machine into a virtual machine on an exFAT drive.

Try again, converting it to an HFS drive for later copying to the exFAT destination - problem solved!