VMDK, VHDX, and VHD are file formats of Virtual drives. They are unique and unlike other files, you can not just double-click on them to open the file. This is a complete guide on how to open VMDK, ...

Running VMWare Workstation on Win10 Pro. Have an VM on a SSD (the VM is OSX but that doesn't matter here.) Have a 4 TB physical HDD with 3 partitions: HFS+ for apple, AFPS for apple, NTFS for Win10.