The great thing about virtualbox is that it can run both VMWare and VB files- you might be able to just install virtualbox, and import your VMWare windows file right to it
I believe it will run the VMDK- just looked it up- yup- just point to the VDMK file when creating new virtualbox- pretty easy to do-
VHD file same hting- here’s a quick tutorial
http://www.sysprobs.com/how-to-open-run-microsoft-vhd-files-on-virtualbox-pre-installed-vhd-images
OK I’ll try VBox before putting any effort into troubleshooting the install issue under VMWare.
Thank you!