Mounting VMDK disk image

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