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glandium / vmfs-tools

http://glandium.org/projects/vmfs-tools/
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VMFS 6 Support? #21

Open CapinDFW opened 7 years ago

CapinDFW commented 7 years ago

Update request (not a bug): Will VMFS 6 be supported in the future (or maybe it is already, and I just can't find it in the release notes)? I was using Clonezilla to replicate a ESXi 6.5 install with VMs and the datastore just won't mount when I restore the image; the VSphere web client freezes when I try to do in manually and throws "unexpected error" message. If there is interest, I'll dig around for any relevant log files.

Thanks!

claunia commented 6 years ago

@CapinDFW dunno if @glandium is interested but if you can provide test images I'm interesting on implementing it in DiscImageChef.

weafon commented 6 years ago

I took some time to hack vmfs6 and modified the code of the website. Since the difference between vmfs5 and vmfs6 is huge, the modifications include lots of “guess” and are not compatible with vmfs5 or vmfs3, e.g. different struct size. Thus, I cloned the project to my github for easy modification. The modifications are totally experimental and only vmfs-fuse and debugvmfs have been applied on a few sample of vmfs6 image. Free to try it if you want to test it. In future, the modified code may be merged back to the project if it is stable. Anyway, wish it is helpful as said by the authors of the project. https://github.com/weafon/vmfs6-tool

fontventa commented 5 years ago

Tested weafon tool and saved my life... Thanks a lot!

ctresco-kaltree commented 5 years ago

Tested weafon tool and saved my life... Thanks a lot!

Count that x2.