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Mount a virtual disk?

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Did I miss something?  I used to down a VM and then mount its virtual disk in order to do a direct backup instead of a .vmdk backup.  That doesn't seem to be possible with VMware Server 2?  I even found and installed the Virtual Disk Development Kit, which got me vmware-mount back, but I get the following error:

 

 

Unable to mount the virtual disk. The disk may be in use by a virtual

machine, may not have enough volumes or mounted under another drive

letter. If not, verify that the file is a valid virtual disk file.

 

 

It definitely is not running (vmrun list shows 0 vm's running).  Interestingly, vmware-mount /p does show that the virtual disk has 1 volume.  Is this because VMware Server 2 upgrades the virtual hardware?  Do we have to change the command line similar to how vmware run was changed compared to the old vmware-cmd (using the storage notation instead of local drive/path)?

 

 


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