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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1367

How to access VMWare filesystem with .NET means

In my C# 3.5 program I would like to access a NTFS/FAT drives from VMWare virtual machine. I have vmdk file with Windows 7 inside.

Is there any programmatic way to mount such drives from vmdk file and access them with the regular .NET API like File.ReadAllText, Directory.GetDirectories and so on?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 645

Answers (1)

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 1800

I think you should be able to mount the virtual machine disk image (.vmdk) using VMWARE Disk MOunt utility - then you should be able to access it like any other drive - there are some caveats regarding disk snapshots - found some more info here

The utility has a command line interface so it should be possible to use Process.Start() to execute the mount operation

Upvotes: 1

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