You cannot. This feature stopped working reliably in 16.2.x, and was removed in 17.0.x Last version which worked correctly was 16.1.2 (which is what I am stuck with using for work because of this).
If you just need to open a virtual disk and read files from it, 7-zip can open a vmdk to READ.
This feature is deprecated from WS 17.0 Release.
Thanks,
Sajesh
