after the file is found on the HDD-storage and selected, click Open button.In here you need to open up, browse and choose the VMDK file object which you would like to open. now the file selection dialogue form appears.Pick the menu item “Use existing hard disk” and after that make a click on the “Choose a virtual hard disk file” pictogram on the right part of the form. This iteration is crucial in running your VMDK-file object in VirtualBox. at this moment you will be asked for virtual hard disk creation.
The more RAM you set, the faster your virtual environment would work, but don’t forget, that actually this space will be physically reduced from your host OS, so make a reasonable decision while selecting the appropriate amount of space for your virtual environment.
define the amount of RAM-memory which you would like to have for your virtual machine. In my case this is Linux, but your choice belongs only to you, so it can be any OS from Windows to FreeBSD and Mac OS, depending on your selection. enter the name of your VM and choose the OS you would prefer to use. 
start creating the new virtual machine instance as usually, by clicking the New button in VirtualBox Manager. Below I will explain the detailed procedure of opening this object on ordinary VirtualBox instance. Despite the following methodic is described in many tutorials, actually in order to open VMDK file on VirtualBox you don’t need to convert it into a VDI-file object. For a reference, VMDK is as an abbreviation for Virtual Machine Disk, - it’s a format of the file, which is applied for virtual applications designed for VMware products. It’s ridiculously easy and simple to open the native to VMware virtual machine VMDK file in VirtualBox.
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