VMWare copied VM not booting: panic kernel

Question

After copied a Linux virtual machine (the folder itself, there's not a snapshot option) created with VMWare Workstation Player 12 to another computer it doesn't boot, it shows a message kernel panic and neither the default kernel nor the other one works.

Both computers have Intel i7 cpu's. Not the exact same, though, but same architecture.

Answer 1

Finally we used VirtualBox instead of VMWare Workstation to load the VMWare Workstation virtual machine.

We created a new virtual machine and set up as disk the copied Virtual Machine (.vmdk file) and it works fine without any other tuning.