I have two Win7 x64 VMs running fine with VMware Fusion 4.1.2. I've installed VMDKMounter from VMware 3.1.3 and OSXFuse 2.3.9. I can mount one of the.vmdk files with VMDKMounter just fine but the other one says 'Cannot open the virtual disk' when I try to mount it. Jun 8 14:43:27 hoth [0x0-0xe50e5].com.vmware.vmdkmounter[2394]: Failed to analyze snapshot chain '/Users/finchr/Documents/VirtualMachines.localized/hoth.univ.dir.wwu.edu.vmwarevm/hoth.univ.dir.wwu.edu.vmx'. Jun 8 14:43:27 hoth [0x0-0xe50e5].com.vmware.vmdkmounter[2394]: Will not be able to make an informed decision based on partial information. Jun 8 14:43:27 hoth [0x0-0xe50e5].com.vmware.vmdkmounter[2394]: Mounting the disk read-only instead. VMDKMounter mounts NTFS hard disks as read-only. VMDKMounter depends on the Mac OS X file system support to mount virtual disk volumes. By default, Mac OS X comes with read-write support for FAT and HFS+ formatted volumes, and read-only support for NTFS formatted volumes. Serial-ATA: Intel 5 Series Chipset. Support/VMware Fusion/VMware Fusion Start Menu.2 02/03/11 21:31 Intel No /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/VMDKMounter. Jun 8 14:43:27 hoth [0x0-0xe50e5].com.vmware.vmdkmounter[2394]: Failed to open disk: Disk encoding error (17) The VM that VMDKMounter fails to mount was created by VMware vCenter Converter 5.0 from a physical machine. The VM that works was created in VMware Fusion 4. Of course, the.vmdk I really want to mount with VMDKMounter is the one that fails. Any idea how to get it to mount? Documentation on the VMDKMounter.app utility (to mount Windows virtual disks under OS-X) says you have mount a disk by selecting lt; Open with: VMDKMounter gt; on the virtual machine in Finder. I noticed you can also achieve this by doing /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/VMDKMounter.app/Contents/MacOS/vmware-vmdkMounter blablablablabla.vmdk This always mounts the disk under /Volumes/Untitled. I am wondering if there is (or will be) more command line support for the VMDKMounter tool. For instance shows that an equivalent tool 'vmware-mount' for Linux has an extensive list of command line options (way to specify the mount point, to unmount the disk, list all mounted virtual disks on the host, etc.). It would be nice if we also have this on OS-X. I am about half way through my 30 day trial and was ready to purchase the full release of VMWare until I noticed a severe issue that I have replicated several times. I switched off my Windows (XP 64) guest machine, saving it's state, and then mounted my FAT32-formatted 'D' drive using vmdkmounter.
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