If the Macrium boot CD can recognize a Player hard disk you may be able to create a new virtual machine in player and use the boot CD to restore directly.

The Linux CD/ISO Image does recognize VMware SCSI Disks and NICs and can be used to restore an image to a Virtual Machine.  The program also has a BartPE Plugin as well.  So I see no reason why this product cannot be used to restore images to a Virtual Machine.