Assuming I haven't totally misunderstood the conversation: there are a number of different VMWare products (and each, of course, has different versions). You can't necessarily take a VM designed for one product/version and run it on a different one - but you can use the (free) VMWare converter to convert the VM.
I had to do this as I had a number of VMs that were for player, but I switched over to server, and had to, well... convert