Mounting vmfs Formatted Disks to Windows Machine

By | 11/09/2012
I used java based code to mount vmfs disk as read only. All extra information and usage details can be found at this website.
I have java installed at “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java”
I have downloaded java code and copied in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin” in vmfs_r95 folder.
Now you can run java code by executing following:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin>java -jar vmfs_r95\fvmfs.jar
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Arguments:
  VMFSVolume info
  VMFSVolume dir path
  VMFSVolume dirall path
  VMFSVolume cat path
  VMFSVolume fileinfo path
  VMFSVolume filecopy path [newname position size]
  VMFSVolume filedump path position size
  VMFSVolume showheartbeats
  VMFSVolume webdav [host port]
 
VMFSVolume can be any mounted VMFS volume, or a volume reachable by SSH/SFTP.
Multiple VMFS extents can be specified using a comma-separated list.
Examples:
  \\sambaserver\luns\bigdisk dir /Linux_VMs
  ssh://root:passwd@linuxhost/mnt/vmfslun fileinfo /disks/SwapDisk-flat.vmdk
  \\.\PhysicalDrive3,\\.\PhysicalDrive4 filecopy /Windows-Template/W2008.vmdk x:
\recover\W2008.vmdk
I connected vmfs disk using USB disk. So I run this command to see disk information.
I used diskpart command to list disks You can see steps below:
vmfs formatted disk is “Disk 2” So physical drive path is \\.\PhysicalDrive2
So I used Command below :
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin>java -jar vmfs_r95\fvmfs.jar \\.\PhysicalDrive2 webdav
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*** Serving WebDAV/HTTP at http://localhost:50080/vmfs
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.mortbay.log).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Browse page at http://localhost:50080/vmfs and see vmfs disks content.
You can even define host and port to connect another machine.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin>java -jar vmfs_r95\fvmfs.jar \\.\PhysicalDrive2 webdav 172.16.12.2 12312
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*** Serving WebDAV/HTTP at http://172.16.12.2:12312/vmfs
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.mortbay.log).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.