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Mount VMware `vmdk` image on Linux
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Tl;dr run this command to mount the second partition on fedora.vmdk to the mountpoint ./mnt.

guestmount -a fedora.vmdk -m /dev/sda2 --ro ./mnt

guestmount is part of libguestfs. In nixpkgs, use libguestfs-with-appliance instead of libguestfs, since the latter produces the following error. See NixOS/nixpkgs#37540 for details.

libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path: /nix/store/c2q57gv3kxl0pvwbdjc8hpqpvykl6n4g-libguestfs-1.48.4/lib/guestfs)
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