How-To How to Pass Host Hardware Information to a VMware Workstation VM There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding ...

This is not officially supported and VMware employees on their forum make it sound like it's impossible, but it turns out there are a few settings you can add to the VMX to force use of an eGPU ...

If you have VMware Fusion 5, it can import OVF files directly (I assume this is what you mean by "open VM format"). I'm sure this works, I've used it regularly since 5 was released.