Vmware file explorer

The Run dialog appears. To search the host hard drive: Open a command prompt. Niels Niels 5 5 bronze badges. Thanks for the answer. I tried the two approaches. Am I missing something?

Have you tried searching for other variations? Mega Mega 4 4 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. I tried that, but the 'virtual machines' folder in my 'Documents' is empty. I would try searching "vmdk" and "vmem" in the root directory C: , those are usually the heavy files, and once you find those you find the VM directory — Mega.

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Hot Network Questions. Question feed. As some of the commenters pointed out, the open-source archiving tool 7-Zip does happen to be the easiest way to open the VMDK file for you. By all means, give 7-Zip a try first and if it failed, try something mentioned above. Actually you mention 3 options. The first one right out of explorer is only available if you have VMware workstation installed on you system. Check the icons used for mapping the drive. It uses the same tool.

That was most like 3rd party software that may have been forgotten to be installed. Have not tried to edit but if you just need to look at what is on the drive 7zip works. Wow, it really works. Thanks for the info! The OSFMount got me out of a bind. The earlier version VM Workstation 10, 12 vmdk files would.

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