Problems opening WXP-VM (formerly produced/used with VMware Workstation)

[Joe890]

Hello Forum

I heard that using VMDK as file-format makes a VM portable and platform independent (but now I remember, that long time
ago under VMware this was only possible with the help of VMware ACE ...)


Question:
However, what could be the problem, that VBox 5.2 cannot open a Windows XP VM (VMDK) produced long time ago with VMware Workstation 7.1 ?


Thank's a lot!
Joe



->new
-> use existing disk
-> WXP.vmdk



E:\VMs-test\Windows XP Professional\Windows XP Professional.vmdk could not be opened.

Could not get the storage format of the medium 'E:\VMs-test\Windows XP Professional\Windows XP Professional.vmdk' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Errorcode:VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component:MediumWrap
Interface:IMedium {4afe423b-43e0-e9d0-82e8-ceb307940dda}
Callee:IVirtualBox {9570b9d5-f1a1-448a-10c5-e12f5285adad}
Callee RC:VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)



PS
On this WXP-VM, VMware Tools are installed...

[mpack]

Lots of things could be wrong. Given the "OBJECT_NOT_FOUND" error I'm going to guess that the VMDK is incomplete is some way.