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?
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.
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.
That works. Thank!