ppeterp wrote:
excuse me for the rigamarole rigmarole - Wiktionary
i have never heard of this word
Yes and obviously I meant it as in "2. Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk." since you start off by wanting to "export" to a "VMDK Sparse" which makes one logically assumes you have either a monolithicFlat or twoGbMaxExtentFlat disk and why I gave to the appropriate vmware-vdiskmanager command. You then point to what one might logically assume is a VirtualBox VM as it's stored where VirtualBox VM's get stored. When all a long all you wanted to do is change from a twoGbMaxExtentSparse to a monolithicSparse disk and this is obviously done in the Virtual Machine Settings! 
What a waste of time! 