virtual-disk

Mounting VMDK disk image

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For newer Linux systems, you can use guestmount to mount the third partition within a VMDK image: guestmount -a xyz.vmdk -m /dev/sda3 –ro /mnt/vmdk Alternatively, to autodetect and mount an image (less reliable), you can try: guestmount -a xyz.vmdk -i –ro /mnt/vmdk Do note that the flag –ro simply mounts the image as read-only; to … Read more

Error when converting VmWare virtual disk to HyperV

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I found some adhoc solution – a bit hack perhaps but it works at least. Digging into similar issues found on google I came to a tool to extract disk descriptor out of the VMDK file. The content of the descriptor for my VMDK was something like this: # Disk DescriptorFile version=1 encoding=”windows-1252″ CID=5379bf0f parentCID=ffffffff … Read more