Les Mikesell wrote at about 13:41:58 -0500 on Thursday, September 10, 2009:
 > Timothy J Massey wrote:
 > > 
 > > VMware Sever 2.0 supports disks in single files, or split in 
 > > arbitrary-sized pieces (usually 2GB), both fully allocated or 
 > > grow-on-demand.  ESX/ESXi only supports single-file images, and it is 
 > > designed to use VMFS. 
 > 
 > I thought there was a way to access the vmx image directly from linux, 
 > but I don't know if it has to be mounted or if you can see a raw 
 > partition.  I was hoping I could make a virtual partition visible on 
 > physical backuppc server so I could sync it as a raid1, then remove it 
 > and have something that could be used in a virtual machine or copied via 
 > rsync, then used by a remote virtual machine.
 > 
 > -- 
 >    Les Mikesell
 >     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
 > 
 > 

I have been able to list partitions and mount them under Linux using
the following command and syntax:
          - List partitions on a vmx disk:
                         vmware-mount.pl -p <disk>
          - Mount partitions on a vmx disk
                         vmware-mount.pl <disk> <partition #> <mount point> -o 
<options>

I seem to recall the instructions for vmware-mount warning that it
might not be 100% stable (but it may be improved since then). Also, I
have used it only as read-only and am not sure if you can (or if it is
advisable) to attempt to write to the partition.

My first impression was that the mounted disk was not particularly
fast but I didn't really measure it so I may be wrong.

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