I was toying with the question of whether a Xenix image (Acronis TIB) and a recovery ISO would allow installing XENIX directly in VMP. Attempts to add a TIB to an Acronis ISO failed ... and ... for some reason the original Acronis ISO wouldn't complete its boot sequence anyway.
Discovered that VMware has a free utilty that will convert TIB files directly to a VM (creates VMX files using VMware Center Converter Standalone Client)
This utility converted the XENIX TIB file and XENIX is now running in VMware Player 4.x with the exception of networking ... VM Player has a few network options ... however ... no luck yet with getting the network to work ... Any suggestions would be appreciated?