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2 Workarounds:

to read a flat.vmdk when dd if=name-flat.vmdk bs=1M ... fails

1. use a helper VM and create a protective snapshot added to the original basedisk.

2. dont access the vmdk-file - acess the device

instead of

dd if=name-flat.vmdk bs=1 count=4096 skip=0  | hexdump -C #fails

run

dd if=/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T4:L0:2 bs=1 count=4096 skip=86991962112| hexdump -C #works


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I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...