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4 Replies Last post: May 6, 2008 4:14 AM by abhishekprasad  

Mounting vmdk using vmware-mount posted: Apr 30, 2008 6:09 AM

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abhishekprasad
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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.

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1. Apr 30, 2008 7:24 AM in response to: abhishekprasad
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abhishekprasad
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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).
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2. Apr 30, 2008 10:36 AM in response to: abhishekprasad
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kjb007
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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

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3. Apr 30, 2008 12:18 PM in response to: kjb007
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abhishekprasad
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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.

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4. May 6, 2008 4:14 AM in response to: abhishekprasad
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abhishekprasad
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finally solved it. The following post explains the steps clearly.

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

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