Running VMware Player : Opening a Virtual Machine

Opening a Virtual Machine
From the Welcome page, you can browse your host file system for virtual machines:
On Windows, click Open in the Commands list.
On Linux, click Open an existing Virtual Machine in the Commands list.
You can browse for VMware configuration (.vmx) files. On Windows, you can also open Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server (.vmc) and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (.sv2i) files.