VMware Communities: Message List - Mounting vmdk using vmware-mount

Re: Mounting vmdk using vmware-mount

abhishekprasad — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:14:33 GMT

finally solved it. The following post explains the steps clearly.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/925334#925334

Re: Mounting vmdk using vmware-mount

abhishekprasad — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:18:24 GMT

No i just have to mount the vms temporarily on to a particular vm running on the same ESX host. As i said in the post above, the issue is with the inventory path. Isn't there anyone who has used vmware-mount to mount files remotely( although on the same host ) ?? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Re: Mounting vmdk using vmware-mount

kjb007 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:36:36 GMT

What is your intent here? If you want to move the disk of vm3 to vm2, then you can remove the disk from vm3, make sure to not delete the files, and then add the disk to vm2 as an existing disk. This will provide that disk mounted on the new vm.

-KjB

Re: Mounting vmdk using vmware-mount

abhishekprasad — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:24:09 GMT

After a little research, i feel the problem is with the inventory path argument provided to vmware-mount.exe. Attached is a screenshot of my VC. Can anyone please suggest as what should be the inventory path if i want to mount VM3-Windows vddk on VM2(as seen in the attached screenshot).

Mounting vmdk using vmware-mount

abhishekprasad — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:09:02 GMT

I have a ESX 3.5 host with multiple VMs running on it. When i tried mounting a local vmdk file on a guest windows OS using vmware-mount.exe, i succeeded. For a remote vmdk (from guest Windows OS to a vmdk file on the ESX ) the same thing failed with the message stating "Unable to get a VIM ticket for this virtual disk". Please help as google is not giving relevant results for this message.