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VMware Disk Mount User’s Guide
Virtual Disk Development Kit 1.2

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About This Book

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Using VMware Disk Mount

Limitations on Mounting Virtual Disks 7 Running VMware Disk Mount on a Windows Host 8 Log Files 8Examples Using VMware Disk Mount on a Windows Host 9 About the Inventory Path 9 Formulating the ESX Inventory Path 10 Formulating the VMware vCenter Inventory Path 10 Running VMware Disk Mount on a Linux Host 11 Log File 12 Examples Using VMware Disk Mount on a Linux Host 12 About the Inventory Path 13 Formulating the Inventory Path 13 Installing the Fuse Package 13 SSL and Crypto Libraries 14

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This VMware® manual, the VMware Disk Mount User’s Guide, introduces the vmware-mount command‐line  utility for accessing disk storage in virtual machines.

Revision History
This book is revised with each release of the product or when necessary. A revised version can contain minor  or major changes. TableP‐1 summarizes the significant changes in each version of this guide. Table P-1. Revision History
Revision 2010‐07‐12 2009‐05‐06 2008‐12‐29 2008‐09‐15 2008‐07‐17 2008‐01‐22 2007‐06‐07 2005‐04‐08 Description Revised for Workstation 7.0 and VDDK 1.1.1 with bug fixes. Revised for VDDK 1.1 with Unicode support. Workaround for missing 64‐bit shared libraries, information on port 902. Added information about Windows and Linux log files.Corrected information about snapshots, /p option, and Fuse mount procedure. New option for inventory path of the virtual machine. Updated with support for Linux hosts and remote virtual disks. First version of the VMware Disk Mount User’s Guide.

To view the most current version of this book as well as all VMware API and SDK documentation, go to  http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html.Intended Audience
This book is intended for anyone who wants to access disks in virtual machines using VMware Disk Mount.  Users typically include developers who work with multiple operating systems or computing environments:  system administrators, application developers, QA engineers, or anyone who wants to create, manage, and modify virtual disk files from scripts or at the command line.

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