vmware-mount.pl comes standard with the linux-based products now,

i believe.  at least, i've seen it with ESX, VC beta, and WS 5.5.

Re: VMware Disk Mount Utility for Linux

\# vmware-mount.pl

This script requires 3 (not 0) mandatory argument(s).

Usage: /usr/bin/vmware-mount.pl

        -p          : Print the partition table

        disk        : Name of the Virtual Hard Disk file

or

        disk        : Name of the Virtual Hard Disk file

        partition   : Number of the partition

        \[-t type]   : Partition type

        \[-o options]: Partition mount options(s)

        mount-point : Directory where to mount the partition

/code

It should be in /usr/bin/

If you don't have it let me know and I'll shoot it over mate.

if you've already got the linux version of VMware Server installed somewhere,

like andrew said it should be in /usr/bin.  you'll also need the /usr/bin/vmware-loop

executable which vmware-mount.pl depends on.  if you have the VMware Server

linux tarball lying around, you can extract only those two files:

Re: VMware Disk Mount Utility for Linux

cd /tmp

tar -xzvf /path/to/VMware-server-e.x.p-22874.tar.gz vmware-server-distrib/bin/vmware-mount.pl vmware-server-distrib/bin/vmware-loop

/code

take the two files and put them in the /usr/bin directory.  the perl script also

looks for the variable loop.fullpath in /etc/vmware/config, so you'll need to

create that file as well unless you want to hardcode it into the perl script:

Re: VMware Disk Mount Utility for Linux

mkdir /etc/vmware

echo 'loop.fullpath = "/usr/bin/vmware-loop"' >> /etc/vmware/config

/code

i think that should do it.  if you want to put the programs somewhere other

than /usr/bin, change the path for loop.fullpath appropriately.

Open the main file (without the -flat suffix) which is the disk descriptor, not the actual binary disk file.  The descriptor-file properly points to any/all binary pieces needed by the mount script.