Jeremy Davis's picture

Running Vbox 4.1.4 on WinXP this imports fine. It does throw an error at one point but it seems to be because the vmdk is not where it expects it to be and despite the error, continues merrily on it's way. I haven't tried on a Linux host for some time but last one I did (v11.0 on VBox 3.x? - Ubuntu 10.04 host IIRC) it worked fine.

As tssgery says above, worst case scenario you can install from ISO. I know it's not as quick as easy but you should have no issues there.