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Mounting Vmware VMDK disk in Linux

Generally we always copy the content in Virtual Machine via network or direct copy in Virtual Machine. We also have a method to access VMware Workstation File in Linux, Right now i am using Ubuntu Linux, so i am going to access .VMDK file at Ubuntu 13.10, but this is the same method for all Linux distributions. To access ".VMDK" file in Ubuntu, First of all we need to verify "vmware-mount" command. This command is already provided by VMware Workstation or VMware Server, But in case if this file is not there, then we need to install the additional package during the VMware Workstation installation. Here are the steps to access .VMDK file in Ubuntu. # vmware-mount -p /home/geo/vmware/my-disk.vmdk         This command show us the mount point within this disk. # vmware-mount /home/geo/vmware/my-disk.vmdk /mnt This command will mount our ".vmdk" disk to /mnt directory. # cd /mnt        Now we can copy the data from this disk...