VixMntapi_MountVolume failing due to missing driver

[GreggH61]

I'm using VixDiskLib and VixMntapi to open a VMDK. I'm able to open the disk and get the volume handle, but when I call VixMntapi_MountVolume it returns VIX_E_MNTAPI_NO_DRIVER. What driver to I need to install, and where can I find it? Is this driver something we can redistribute?

Thanks,

Gregg

[admin · Accepted solution]

Hi Gregg,

A kernel model driver is necessary on Windows to be able to mount volumes. On Linux, the fuse kernel module is used.

When you install VDDK, the driver is automatically installed. This is a software only driver (unfortunately, you will need to write your own install utility to install the driver), it is named vstor2-mntapi10.sys - yes, you can redistribute this.

Thanks for using VDDK,

-Sudarsan

[GreggH61]

Exactly what I needed. Thank you!