Virtualbox 4.0 - Doesn't open vmdk VMWare disks

[alessandro.feltrin]

Hello.
I am a little new about Virtualbox. I've installed it on a Windows 7 and i've try to find some info about opening a VMWare machine (a vmdk file).
Both the user manual and some suggestion found in Internet say that it is possible and simple ... Although the manual (Chapter 5.2) says that VMDK are fully supported, I haven't found the possibility to perform it, because in the user interface i have no other possibility than open Virtualbox VMs or xml format.
Any idea?
Alessandro

[stefan.becker]

You must create a new guest. Create not a new image, instead of this point to existing vmdk.

[silvex]

Create new machine
Select ram
then select existing disk and point to the vmware image/disk...

[mpack]

I haven't found the possibility to perform it

Your question is like saying "I have the hard disk from a laptop - I'm told it's possible to run programs from this hard disk, but I can't see anything in the Windows User Manual telling me how". The answer to that is, of course, that a hard disk is useless by itself - you have to put it inside a PC.

Likewise: a VMDK is an image of a hard disk. To use it you must mount it inside a (Virtual) PC. Furthermore you must get the hardware in the virtual PC as close as possible to its original settings, otherwise the guest might crash - or at the very least ask you to reactivate (if the guest is Windows).