Need to access data on your virtual disk or dreaming about fast and easy data exchange between the host and guest OS on a Mac? We’ve got you covered! Introducing new Paragon VMDK Mounter for Mac OS X – the first and only solution on the market which gives you full high-speed read/write access to virtual disks under Mac.
The best solution is to back up your Mac to VMDK and launch it in the VMware Fusion virtual environment. This way, you can decide whether the new software is safe and fits your needs. You can mount an existing backup image in the read-only mode, thus getting access to its contents through the Finder. OS X 10.11 El Capitan; OS X 10.10. Paragon VMDK Mounter for Mac OS X specially developed to mount the virtual disk images in OS X systems with providing full read/write access to a virtual disk content. The following formats are supported by Paragon VMDK Mounter. Okaay, so people were complaining about having to download a 4GB file the other day to install Mac OS X Lion in VMware, so this video shows you how to create.
Key Features and Benefits
Features | Benefits |
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Very easy to use | mount a virtual container by double clicking or using Finder’s “Open With…” context submenu. |
Alternatively a powerful CLI (Command Line Interface) | utility allows you to create and mount a virtual container. |
High performance | high speed access to virtual disk content and high-speed data exchange between host and guest OS. |
The first and only solution | with full read/write access to virtual disks on OS X. |
Supports VMDK | larger than 2TB. |
Supported Virtual Disks Formats |
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System Requirements |
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Resources
Current Version | Download Paragon VMDK Mounter for Mac OS X |
Product Documentation | Download Paragon VMDK Mounter for Mac OS X User Manual |
A tool has been release that allows the mounting of other virtual disks formats also. I will demonstrate vmdk disk mounter using paragon.
1st paragon is free , but you have to get aregistration & productkey. This take a few seconds do and they send the key via email.
my key
PRODUCT KEY: VMDK-MOUNTER-2014-434979472
SERIAL NUMBER: 51537-43450-1B2D9-8213A
After you run thru the installer and it can take some time, you can now execute the application. My 1st try at this software generated a mount_error. I never figured out why, and the vmdk in question works perfectly fine on the vmserver that hosts this image.
Now after you select a vmdk file, you can mount the vm-disk and it will show up into diskutil, mount and df details.
A puppylinux vdi image also gave errors;
Other vdi images gave errors also so I'm still investigating and WTF.
For now, the qcow format diskimage will have to wait. I've sent two email requesting more information from them and they have never responded for my request.
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This tool is great for security analysis & forensic. You can mount these vm disk images RO using the cli option -readonly
e.g
vdmutil -verbose -vendor vmdk -readonly <image name >
Ken Felix
NSE (
Vmdk Mac Os Mojave
Network Security Expert) and Route/Switching Engineer.kfelix -----a----t---- socpuppets ---dot---com
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