OpenSUSE 12.3 can be installed in VMware, but on reboot it hangs on the green splash screen as shown in the image below.
Workarounds:
- Go to VM > Settings > Processors and set the number of processor cores to 2 or more.
- Go to VM > Settings > Display and uncheck ‘Accelerate 3D graphics’.
This allowed OpenSUSE to boot normally for me.