Mount a VMware virtual disk (.vmdk) file on a Linux box

kpartx -av <image-flat.vmdk>; mount -o /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/vmdk

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.

Sample Output

# kpartx -av NetMon/NetMon-flat.vmdk 
loop0p1 : 0 497952 /dev/loop0 63
loop0p2 : 0 104358240 /dev/loop0 498015

By: rldleblanc

2014-09-25 23:05:09

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Mount a VMware virtual disk (.vmdk) file on a Linux box

Assumes XP/2000/2003. For Server 2008+ try offset=105,906,176 You can find this number in the System Information utility under Partition Starting Offset. UEFI based boxes you want partition 2 since the first is just the boot files (and FAT). This works with (storage side) snapshots which is handy for single file restores on NFS mounted VMware systems Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
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
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-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root 133K Feb 16  2007 msizap.exe
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Jun 23  2009 MSDOS.SYS
...
```
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sudo mount vmware-server-flat.vmdk /tmp/test/ -o ro,loop=/dev/loop1,offset=32768 -t ntfs

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