Is a ova file interchangable between Oracle's VirtualBox and VMware's player?

It开发者_JAVA百科 seems to be easy question but I an new at this. I got a ova from one of my partners. He told me he exported a VM file using Export Appliance in VirtualBox. And my office's laptop is installed with VM player. My guess is that it is the same ova filetype. It supposed to open in both VMs. However, VW play shows this message.

Failed to open virtual machine: Failed to query source for information.

Any thought on this?