/i is the inventory path of the vm.

Also the disk path should include the datastore name like "storage2 yourvm/harddisk1.vmdk"

The attached picture should clarify the above - it shows an example with VC - Note the vm after the datacenter name.

For ESX, it is similar, but the datacenter name is always ha-datacenter. So the path would look like ha-datacenter/vm/<vm path>

Thanks
Sudarsan

What is esx305.localdomain in your command line?

I am guessing this would work:

vmware-mount Q: /i:"ha-datacenter/vm/xp-sp2" "local12gigs xp-sp2/xp-sp2.vmdk" /h:10.0.0.35 /u:root /s:password /v:1

-Sudarsan

Thanks a lot - got it working now.
Hey - this new option is pretty useful for a cold clone cd - now you can clone large data disks by copying just the data you want with robocopy

Ulli

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description of vmx-parameters: http://sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
VMware-liveCD: http://sanbarrow.com/moa.html

Hi all,

I am trying to mount a remote disk(.vmdk) to my local machine which is also linux.

Iam using the follwoing command to mount the disk:

vmware-mount -v ha-datacenter/vm/TestVM -h 10.0.0.1 -u root -F password "DataStoreName TestVM/TestVM.vmdk" /mountPoint

But its not mounting the disk and throwing the following error:

Failed to open disk: Unknown error (1)
Failed to mount disk "DataStoreName TestVM/TestVM.vmdk" : Cannot open the virtual disk

can anyone help me out at this stage, where do I go wrong???

Thank you.

Suman