i also have lot's of vmwares for my Esxi Server stored on my Qnap NAS and can be accessed using Explorer on Windows 7.
I can easily start this Vmware again using Workstation... so it is possible?
But not for vmdk stored on Esxi, because of a missing SMB server on Esxi......?
EDIT noticed this is not a workable solution. Going to copy the vmdk that i temporarily need using Veeam FastSCP and than use it with Workstation.
EDIT2 it seems that a copied vmx + vmdk can't be imported in Vmware Workstation....???