Restoring SQL Server databases from VMDK backups

If I am doing VMware VMDK backups of a database server, I should be able to "recover" a database by pulling the .mdf and .ldf files out of a VMDK backup, right? This would not require the use of the SQL Server "database extension". I realize that this is in no way a solution for backing up SQL Server databases and the database extension is required for point-in-time recovery, but am just curious if the VMDK backup is providing an 'extra' backup albeit at the file level.