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Mount VMDK in Linux.md

If you need to mount a VMDK-file and browse around.
You will need guestmount. My VMDK is a linux based disk.

Installation

guestmount is contained in following packages per distro:

Ubuntu: libguestfs-tools
OpenSuse: guestfs-tools
CentOS / Fedora: libguestfs-tools-c

$ sudo apt install libguestfs-tools

Usage

You may need to replace /dev/sda1 depending on your vmdk.

$ sudo /mnt/vmdk
$ sudo guestmount -a disk-flat.vmdk --ro /mnt/vmdk -m /dev/sda1
$ sudo ls /mnt/vmdk
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