Re: [Mdn-devel] server woes

[Andrew R. <ar...@gm...>]

Sweet. I guess I overlooked that script. Is it in Server?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Michael Frank <ms...@sy...>
wrote:

> Andrew Reusch wrote:
> > On a related note, mind if I ask how this is done? would be exteremely
> > useful for me....
> >
> sure, its pretty simple actually.  you just use the vmware-mount.pl
> script.  basic usage is:
>
> $ vmware-mount.pl <diskfile> <partition number> [-o <mount options>]
> <mountpoint>
>
> where <diskfile> is the path to the .vmdk file, <partition number> is
> the partition inside the diskfile you want to mount, and <mountpoint> is
> a path to a directory where the partition can be mounted.  <mount
> options> is optional, and takes the same kind of options you would pass
> to the regular mount command.  you can find what partition number to use
> by running 'vmware-mount.pl -p <diskfile>' to list the partitions.
>
> you will most likely see a warning like this when you mount: "It has
> been reported that this program does not work correctly with 2.4+ Linux
> kernels in some cases, and you are currently running such a kernel. Do
> you really want to continue? [N]".  from what i read, it can be ignored,
> but if you want to be safe you can mount the partition readonly (passing
> -o ro as a mount option).
>
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