If you want this to run under VMware you you will need to convert the provided IMG file to a VMDK. I believe there are tools to do this, but you would need to look up the process. I believe it involves coping the file to the VMware ESXi Host, Logging into the ESXi host with SSH, and then running a VMware tools command to convert it. It will still be a crapshoot as to if it will actually work.
I should also point out this is with the VMware ESXi fling on ARM so you would to load vmware on a pi.
