How can I mount vmdk in 10.7?

Question

I\'m using OSX Lion and want to mount a VMDK-File which I\'ve created on my VMWare Fusion 4.0.2.

Is it possible?!

I asked Google, it means I should mount the VMD

Answer 1

Use libvmdk.

libvmdk is a library to access the VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) format.

First mount using vmdkmount, then attach the image as a "raw disk image" using OS X' builtin hdiutil.

vmdkmount image.vmdk /mnt/vmdkimage/
hdiutil attach -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage -nomount /mnt/vmdkimage/vmdk1

The image should then be listed in OS X' Disk Utility application, but in this case partitions won't be automatically mounted because of -nomount. If you are trying to mount Ext4 partitions on Mac, you might want to look at using ext4fuse; more common formats are handled by OS X' mount.