Copy boot.ini from new boot disk to the second one (that is not boot disk).
Edit boot.ini on the second disk to boot from rdisk(1)
Swap disks: new second.
Boot setup from CD and go on Repair Procedure (after licence agreement) for the new boot disk.
fdisk new boot image and toggle Boot flag.
Swap disks back: second new.
Boot from the new disk.
Remove vmware tools and devices.
Reboot and be happy.
That's all.
P. S. To swap disks and edit boot.ini (items 5,6,7,10) should be excludedif the boot disk is named C:, that is right in most cases. Those items arefor strange case, when boot disk is D: and second one is C:.
Starting at v0.12, Qemu-kvm has native support to VMware's disk images v6 (seems to be compatible with v7, used by VMware Server). So VMware images can could be run with Qemu-kvm without any modification (make backups and do it at your own risks though !).
Look at your VMX configuration file:
The UUID is optional, but might be useful for applications using it for validation (i.e. Windows), and the MAC address as well.
Second way could be to convert the disk image: