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Mount VM Fails

Is it true that when I upgraded to VMWare Fusion 3 I lost the ability to mount VMs as disks?  I used to be able to do this with VMDKMounter app in Snow Leopard in 64bit mode.  No more.  From what I have read it appears that it does not work when running in 64 bit mode.  So the workaround is to reboot my machine in 32bit mode?  Really?   Surely there's a way to mount a disk in 64bit mode?  I mean, who would but Fusion if there weren't?

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WoodyZ
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This is really more a limitation of FUSE, (which is a 3rd party driver), not VMware Fusion.

From the VMware Fusion 3.0 Release Notes EN:

  • You cannot mount a virtual disk on a virtual machine in a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard host with 64-bit kernel.
    If you try to use VMDKMounter on a 64-bit kernel Mac OS X 10.6 host, you get an alert stating The VMware fuse daemon failed to start. Currently, MacFUSE does not work with 64-bit kernels.
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Yeah, I realize that VMWare depends on FUSE for mounting.  It's unfortunate they do not provide a solution for this very important use case.

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That works.  Thank!

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