{"id":499,"date":"2013-07-10T05:47:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=499"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:54:27","slug":"access-vmware-guest-system-files-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/access-vmware-guest-system-files-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Access VMware Guest File System on Ubuntu (non-host)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-502\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download.jpg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/download-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tutorial shows you how to mount \/ access VMware Virutal Machine File System (vmfs) on Ubuntu (non host).<\/p>\n<p>VMFS is a clustered filesystem designed to store virtual machine disks for VMware ESX or ESXi Server hosts. There is a command line tool for Linux that allows to access VMFS filesystems from some other non ESX\/ESXi host for e.g. maintenance tasks.<\/p>\n<p>First install this tool by searching and installing the package from Ubuntu Software Center. Or run the command below:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install vmfs-tools<\/pre>\n<p>Find you vmfs partition by running this command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo fdisk -l<\/pre>\n<p>Then mount vmfs with this tool. For example, \/dev\/sdb3 is the vmfs that we want to mount. We&#8217;re going to mount it to \/mnt directory. Run this command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):<\/p>\n<pre>sudo vmfs-fuse \/dev\/sdb3 \/mnt\/<\/pre>\n<p>After that, open your system file manager, and go to the new mounted folder and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows you how to mount \/ access VMware Virutal Machine File System (vmfs) on Ubuntu (non host). VMFS is a clustered filesystem designed to store virtual machine disks for VMware ESX or ESXi Server hosts. There is a command line tool for Linux that allows to access VMFS filesystems from some other non [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-command-skills","tag-mount-vmfs-on-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}