root@sv-is-staging01$ mount vm-site-dc01-flat.vmdk /tmp/test/ -o ro,loop=/dev/loop1,offset=32768 -t ntfs root@sv-is-staging01$ ls /tmp/test total 1.6G -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47K Nov 30 2005 NTDETECT.COM -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 133K Feb 16 2007 msizap.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 23 2009 MSDOS.SYS ...
This does not require you to know the partition offset, kpartx will find all partitions in the image and create loopback devices for them automatically. This works for all types of images (dd of hard drives, img, etc) not just vmkd. You can also activate LVM volumes in the image by running
vgchange -a y
and then you can mount the LV inside the image.
To unmount the image, umount the partition/LV, deactivate the VG for the image
vgchange -a n <volume_group>
then run
kpartx -dv <image-flad.vmdk>
to remove the partition mappings.
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