@mald0n
thanks buddy. I'll give that a go using hdiutil in macOS.
I tried renaming the raw file to dmg in Windows and then converting to iso using AnyToIso. It converted the file but Vmware won't recognize it.
Ok, so I've created an iso file using hdiutil and then copied the iso back to Windows. Vmware Workstation still won't recognize this iso file. Can anyone make the vmdk file from the beta 3 image?