

Try running qemu directly without libvirt using this environment variable: Libguestfs: error: could not create appliance through libvirt. Troubleshooting error: could not create appliance through libvirt $ guestmount -a file.vmdk -i -ro /mnt/guest Guestmount is contained in following packages per distro: etcįor newer Linux systems, you can use guestmount to mount the third partition within a VMDK image: guestmount -a xyz.vmdk -m /dev/sda3 -ro /mnt/vmdkĪlternatively, to autodetect and mount an image (less reliable), you can try: guestmount -a xyz.vmdk -i -ro /mnt/vmdkĭo note that the flag -ro simply mounts the image as read-only to mount the image as read-write, just replace it with the flag -rw. So i tired to mount as a vfat but that gave me mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock. Which outputs a ton of information but of note is: In trying to find the correct type I tried dd if=/mnt/EntireDisk | file. r- 1 te users 1569718272 Feb 28 14:16 Partition1Ĭontinuing with the guide I try to mount either EntireDisk or Partition1 using mount -o loop,ro /mnt/Partition1 mnt2/īut that gives me the error 'mount: you must specify a filesystem type' I'm able to mount the image using vdfuse vdfuse -w -f windows.vmdk /mnt/Īfter this I can see one partition and an entire disk exposed # ll /mnt/ I've tried to follow several guides, such as : I am trying to mount this and explore all of the partitions (including hidden ones). I have a single vmware disk image file with vmdk extension
