Are VMware Fusion images compatible with ESXi?

Are VMware Fusion images compatible with ESXi? If I create a VMware virtual image on my Mac (with VMware Fusion 2) it creates a file line Ubuntu.vmwarevm. Will this file be compatible with a ESXi 4.0 server? In general, are virtual machines for VMware all the same format?
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"In theory, yes, they do. That being said, not everything is as simple as the marketing would have you believe. A more obvious example is that on OS X you can create an OS X vm, but you will have a hard time getting that to run on another platform because there are certain requirements that are specific to the Fusion product.

There are aslo different vmWare ""hardware"" versions to consider and the documentation of the chosen source/destination will outline differences and compatibility issues.

So there is not a strait forward answer for this question. Anyone who tells you simply yes or no has not tried to do this himself, or is a marketing guy for vmWare... :-D"