There is a trivial way to mount vmware disk images (.vmdk files) from the GUI using VM settings. However, to do that remotely from the cmdline, VMware provides a specific tool vmware-mount which can be used as a regular user. Usage:. Create the directory to mount the virtual disk:$ mkdir vmmnt. Mount the virtual disk: $ vmware-mount myVM/myVM.vmdk vmmnt/. Now any changes you make under vmmnt directory will be saved when you unmount: $ vmware-mount -k myVM/myVM.vmdTo mount vdi files on Ubuntu, download the right virtualbox-fuse package for your release and architecture from. Then run: //Install$ sudo dpkg -i -force-depends virtualbox-fuse $version $arch.deb//Mount vdi and volume$ mkdir /vdisk$ mkdir /vol1$ sudo vdfuse -f Machine.vdi /vdisk$ sudo mount /vdisk/Partition1 /vol1.
Mounting a hard disk image including partitions using Linux January 22, 2008 andre 71 Comments A while ago I thought it would be a good idea to make a backup of my Linux server by just dumping the complete disk to a file. How to Mount VMDK files in Linux. 29 August 2007. There's various tools for Windows that allow you to mount VMware images, which offers a convenient way to transfer files to/from the Virtual Machine. Name of the Virtual Hard Disk file or disk: Name of the Virtual Hard Disk file partition: Number of the partition -t type.