I have a bunch of older virtual machines and .vmdk files from my Windows PC from various backups before I switched over to using Fusion. I'm now using Fusion 5 under Mavericks and I have been restarting the old virtual machines to see what user files may be contained within that I want to preserve. When the machine will no longer boot I have followed the instructions to attach the existing virtual disk as a second hard disk to an existing Windows XP virtual machine (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2005146)
but this is very time consuming.
There used to be a way to mount the .vmdk files as a disk image in Mac OS X so a person could just copy the files from the image (http://superuser.com/questions/247915/os-x-reading-vmdk-files) using VMDK mounter. However, that application file does not appear to be in the indicated location.
Is there still a way to mount .vmdk files under Mac OS X without having to individually attach each drive to an existing virtual machine?
Thanks, Mike