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Can't mount a vmfs partition on windows #16

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hi.

I was not able to mount a vmfs partition (not whole disk) no matter what 
device string I tried. I tried to backup an esxi hdd, which has around 7 
partitions (all created by default esxi install) a lot of fat partitions 
and only van vmfs. I'm using win 2008 standard x64 with vmfs driver r81.

It would be nice to have a partition id parameter in CLI.

Keep up the good work, it's a very useful project!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gtermi...@gmail.com on 26 May 2009 at 11:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thanks -- under Windows, to list the volumes (partitions) please use the 
mountvol
command, and then run the VMFS tools with the appropriate volume device name. 
Be sure
to run in elevated mode, otherwise you will see a FileNotFound error with 
"Access is
denied".

Original comment by fluidops...@gmail.com on 3 Jun 2009 at 10:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thanks for the answer, but i can't see the vmfs partitions in mountvol's list. 
Please
check this screenshot: 
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/090603/mountvol3_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.gif
Disk1 is an esx harddisk. I think mountvol only lists/handles ntfs and fat
partitions, but esx disk only has ext3 and vmfs partitions.

Original comment by gtermi...@gmail.com on 3 Jun 2009 at 6:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hi,

we have the same problem !
How can we mount VMFS volume into Windows with mountvol (with writing any bad
information) ?
After that, we will try to read the vmfs volume via the driver.

Thanks a lot !

Original comment by francois...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2009 at 8:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hi,

same problem here.

Original comment by 84ferna...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2009 at 9:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
we simply were not able to make this thing work on windows (and I was not even 
sure
that it is working on windows with USB drives), so the fastest way to get rid 
of this
problem was solved within a Linux VM, after that we are encountered the same 
problem
as mentioned in comments on issue 10

http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/issues/detail?id=10

Original comment by 84ferna...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2009 at 11:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Merged into enhancement request.

Original comment by fluidops...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:23