User manual VMWARE DISK MOUNT UTILITY WORKSTATION 5.5

[. . . ] VMware DiskMount Utility User's Manual Please note that you will always find the most up-to-date technical documentation on our Web site at http://www. vmware. com/support/. VMware, Inc. 3145 Porter Drive Palo Alto, CA 94304 www. vmware. com The VMware Web site also provides the latest product updates. Copyright © 1998-2005 VMware, Inc. [. . . ] DiskMount is a command line program called vmware-mount that works similarly to how you use the subst command on Windows. Once the disk is mounted, you can read from and write to the disk as if it were a separate file system with its own drive letter on your network. However, you cannot power on any virtual machine that uses this disk until the disk is unmounted. You can perform activities such as scanning a virtual disk for viruses and transferring files between the host system and a powered off virtual machine. When you are finished using the mounted virtual disk, delete the mapping so the virtual disk can be used by virtual machines again. Considerations for Mounting Virtual Disks · You can use DiskMount with virtual disks created with VMware ESX Server 2, VMware GSX Server 3 and 2. 5. 1, VMware ACE, and VMware Workstation 5 and 4. Note: Virtual disks created with VMware ACE cannot be encrypted virtual disks. · You can run DiskMount on any versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003. · You can mount volumes formatted with FAT (12/16/32) or NTFS only. If the virtual disk has a mix of partitions (volumes) where, for example, a partition is unformatted or is formatted with a Linux operating system and another partition is formatted with a Windows operating system, you can mount the Windows partition with DiskMount. Any changes you make to the virtual disk while it is mounted are discarded when you revert to the snapshot. · You cannot mount a virtual disk if any of its . vmdk files are compressed or have read-only permissions. Change these attributes before mounting the virtual disk. 3 The DiskMount User's Manual · You cannot mount a virtual disk that is currently being used by a running or suspended virtual machine. [. . . ] Mounting a Virtual Disk Use this command to mount a virtual disk: vmware-mount h: "C:\My Virtual Machines\w2003std. vmdk" List Virtual Disk Volumes Currently Mounted Use this command to review which virtual disks are mounted under DiskMount. vmware-mount Currently mounted volumes: f:\ => "C:\My Virtual Machines\w2003std\w2003std. vmdk" g:\ => "C:\My Virtual Machines\NT\NT. vmdk (volume 1)" Mounting a Specific Volume in a Virtual Disk Use this command to mount a specific volume in a virtual disk: vmware-mount /v:2 h: "C:\My Virtual Machines\w2003std. vmdk" Unmounting a Virtual Disk Use this command to unmount a virtual disk so virtual machines can access it again: vmware-mount h: /d 5 The DiskMount User's Manual 6 www. vmware. com [. . . ]