[Update] VMware Products

Discussion in 'Virtualization' started by acyuta, Aug 23, 2012.

  1. pinkfufu

    pinkfufu MDL Junior Member

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    Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it doesn't do what I thought it would do. I want to mount a .vmdk with read/write access but this doesn't do that.
     
  2. lalakis

    lalakis MDL Junior Member

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    If you have VMware Workstation, it has a mount in read/write option.
     
  3. pinkfufu

    pinkfufu MDL Junior Member

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    I have VMware Workstation 17 but that feature isn't present. It's been removed as far as I can see.
     
  4. lalakis

    lalakis MDL Junior Member

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    In version 15, it definitely exists.
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  5. pinkfufu

    pinkfufu MDL Junior Member

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    It's also present in VMware 16. The problem is I'm unable to get the latest Windows 10 to work in version 16 without BSODs. It installs and runs fine in version 17.

    In version 17, I've tried removing the disk from the guest and adding it to a different guest to access it from the latter. This works but it corrupts the attached disk so I can't boot the first guest after adding the disk back.

    Any ideas?
     
  6. Tonyny

    Tonyny MDL Novice

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    So this feature - mount in read/write option - can be used in some way,
    perhaps as a command line tool to work alongside with VMWS v17?
     
  7. lalakis

    lalakis MDL Junior Member

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    If you know/Have Linux, it has options for mounting and many more.
     
  8. Gelip

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  9. Gelip

    Gelip MDL Senior Member

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    The tool has not been developed for a long time, but works ;)
     
  10. pinkfufu

    pinkfufu MDL Junior Member

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    I haven't had time to test the tool but will as soon as I can. Did you test it on Windows 10/11? With what version of VMware vmdk?
     
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  12. Gelip

    Gelip MDL Senior Member

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    #457 Gelip, Jan 22, 2025
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    @pinkfufu
    What do you not understand? Right-click on the VMDK file and select Mount to mount - a new disk will appear in the Device Manager: VMLite VBootMP SCSI Disk Device and in diskmgmt.msc and if there are partitions on the disk, e.g. NTFS or FAT32, they will also appear in the My Computer window.
    Right-click on the VMDK file and select UnMount to unmount.
    At the first mount, the question will appear about the installation of the driver - see post #450

    In Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 you need use this tool in Administrator account - read the beginning of this tutorial:
    https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/winxp-64-bit-on-a-modern-pc-iso-boot-wim-install-wim.88435/
     
  13. Gelip

    Gelip MDL Senior Member

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    #460 Gelip, Jan 24, 2025
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