mount the disk images of a guest virtual machine to read/write its contents

[TechNoLogy2009]

I am tring ro mount the disk images of a virtual machine on VMware Hypervisor machine. I downloaded and installed VMware-server (http://www.vmware.com/download/server/) to get vmware-mount command able to runand tried as explained in http://www.vmware.com/pdf/VMwareDiskMount.pdf . But command vmware-mount -p disk_image_location is not running properly and resulting into this error,

fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

Fuse daemon exited with error.

Failed to mount disk: The VMware fuse daemon failed to start.

Plz help what to do.

Thanks

[continuum]

which platform are you using ?

VMware Hypervisor machine can be anything ...

In case you are talking about ESX - have a look at the VDDK = virtual disk development kit - that can be used to mount remote vmdks

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[TechNoLogy2009]

I am using ESX, but the vmdk images are on the same machine not remote, I am facing the same error even after installing fuse.

[srinivasvivek]

Try using disk mount from VDDK rather than what comes with WS..

There is nice gui that you can use it with

Please mark if you find it useful

[continuum]

OP uses Linux - so Rob's GUI will not help.

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