It is a fact that VmWare 5.5 supports virtual pc hardisks directly (you can open a vpc hardisk without importing it) .
But in practice when you try to open a vpc from VmWare you are going to find that in some cases this doesn't work (VmWare throws an error message).
So the next step is try to import the vpc using the Virtual Machine Importer, but in the same cases this doesn't work also and the following error is logged:
TranslateError: now err -2147213303: VMware Virtual Machine Importer has encountered an internal error: A required archive (driver.cab) could not be found in the source OS.
After some research I found the resolution for this problem:
- Find another host or guest computer running the same operating system and service packs that the one you want to open or import.
- Copy the "%windir%\Driver Cache" directory into the same location on the vpc image.
- Shut down the VPC
- Open or Import the vpc image
Pablo