topic accessing virtual machine filesystem from host machine in VMware Workstation Player Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/accessing-virtual-machine-filesystem-from-host-machine/m-p/150033#M517 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The Linux host machine that I am running my VM (also Linux) from crashed recently. Fortunately i have a backup of the host machine, but I need to access the VM's files from the backup of the host machine. Can anyone tell me where in the host machine's file system the VM's file system lives? Thanks in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:48:56 GMT dshimoka 2007-03-01T19:48:56Z accessing virtual machine filesystem from host machine https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/accessing-virtual-machine-filesystem-from-host-machine/m-p/150033#M517 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The Linux host machine that I am running my VM (also Linux) from crashed recently. Fortunately i have a backup of the host machine, but I need to access the VM's files from the backup of the host machine. Can anyone tell me where in the host machine's file system the VM's file system lives? Thanks in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:48:56 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/accessing-virtual-machine-filesystem-from-host-machine/m-p/150033#M517 dshimoka 2007-03-01T19:48:56Z Re: accessing virtual machine filesystem from host machine https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/accessing-virtual-machine-filesystem-from-host-machine/m-p/150034#M518 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The guest lives entirely in the .vmdk file(s) on your host. You should be able to use the vmware-mount.pl script to mount the virtual disk as another drive on your host as long as the guest is not running.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:21:15 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/accessing-virtual-machine-filesystem-from-host-machine/m-p/150034#M518 RDPetruska 2007-03-01T21:21:15Z Re: accessing virtual machine filesystem from host machine https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/accessing-virtual-machine-filesystem-from-host-machine/m-p/150035#M519 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a similar problem and need to access the virtual machine drive, but I have no vmware-mount.pl script. What can I do?</P><P></P><P>I am running Windows XP as a guest to Kubuntu 6.06.</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Komyg</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:53:12 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/accessing-virtual-machine-filesystem-from-host-machine/m-p/150035#M519 komyg 2007-03-02T17:53:12Z