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#HOW TO DOWNLOAD VMDK FILE FROM VMWARE MAC OS X#
#HOW TO DOWNLOAD VMDK FILE FROM VMWARE INSTALL#
#HOW TO DOWNLOAD VMDK FILE FROM VMWARE PRO#
#HOW TO DOWNLOAD VMDK FILE FROM VMWARE WINDOWS#

#HOW TO DOWNLOAD VMDK FILE FROM VMWARE WINDOWS#

You can browse directly the location VMDK files and right-click on the VMDk file which you want to mount in windows machine and select Map Virtual Disk and Select the VMDK to mount. you can access the VMDK virtual disk from your windows explorer. That s it your VMDK will be mounted on your Windows Machine with the drive letter specified. Select the Drive Letter from the drop down by your choice and click on OK. It is always recommended to open the file in read-only mode to avoid unnecessary data loss or drive corruption. Open your VMware Workstation, and Click on File and Select Map Virtual DisksĬlick on Browse and browse towards the location of your VMDK virtual disk file and verify the volume size. There are 2 different ways to mount your VMDK virtual disk into windows machine. It will be located on the same directory, where you virtual machines files are stored. Let’s jump in to the procedure to mount your VMware VMDK virtual disk in your windows machine.

To achieve this, you must have one of VMware products like VMware Workstation or Player installed on your windows machine. This may be needed incase if you want to access your VMware Virtual Machine files from your windows machine or to transfer some files from windows machine to your virtual machine or vice versa.

This simple post is going to explain you the procedure to mount your VMware VMDK virtual disk as windows drive.

Diff VCenter 5.5 appliance and vCenter on WIndows.

Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS 64-bit (source virtual machine).

#HOW TO DOWNLOAD VMDK FILE FROM VMWARE MAC OS X#

Mac OS X 10.11.3/VMware Fusion 8.1 (source virtual host).

This article was created based on the following setup: That’s how you convert VMDK to VHD files! I hope you found this information helpful and thank you for reading! Lastly fire-up your new Hyper-V virtual machine and hopefully all is good. When you get to the step “Connect Virtual Hard Disk” choose “Use an existing virtual hard disk” radio button and browse for the VHD file you just created. Then head over to your Hyper-V host and create a new virtual machine.

ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath “C:\Ubuntu-disk1.vmdk” -DestinationLiteralPath “C:\Ubuntu-disk1.vhd” -VhdType FixedHardDisk -VhdFormat Vhd.

Import-Module ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter\MvmcCmdlet.psd1’.

Next, open an elevated PowerShell prompt and run these command (changing the paths to match your source VMDK file and destination path of your new VHD file):.

#HOW TO DOWNLOAD VMDK FILE FROM VMWARE INSTALL#

First, you will need to download and install Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 from Microsoft’s website.

We do however have a few clients that use Hyper-V in their environments and luckily, Microsoft does have a utility for easily converting VMware virtual guest OS directly from your vSphere environment, or in my situation, from a VMware Fusion VMDK file to a Hyper-V VHD file. Typically, I find myself doing most of my conversions directly from physical hosts (P2V) or from Hyper-V host to VMware ESXi hosts. It does have a major shortfall I recently ran into: there is no ability to easily convert VMDK into VHD files. Granted VMware Fusion is “I believe” an inferior product to it’s nearest competition, especially when it comes to connecting to and uploading VM’s directly to multiple VMware vSphere server environments.

#HOW TO DOWNLOAD VMDK FILE FROM VMWARE PRO#

To accomplish this, I prefer to build and maintain several VM’s utilizing VMware Fusion Pro on my Mac. I use a MacBook Pro in the field daily and find myself needing to spin-up some home-brewed Windows and Linux virtual machines quickly.