I created a vdmk image from a system that was having hardware issues using:
(How to create a Virtualbox image from a physical partition by one command)
sudo dd if=/dev/sda | VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin MyLinuxImage.vmdk 120034123776 --format VMDK
the next thing I did was install VM Player 6.0.1 build-1379776 on a windows 8 machine. The steps that I used was:
(http://smallbusiness.chron.com/play-vmdk-file-44318.html\)
So finally after all of this is done, VM Player will boot 10% of the time. Usually if I remove all the *.lck file from the virtualmachine directory and the directory where the actual VM resides, it will reboot. I have attached the log files to give you a better understanding on the inconsistency of this important VM.