He had used the tool a hundred times in labs, but never in a real firefight. He downloaded the portable version of and the open-source vmfs-tools compiled for Windows. His fingers flew across the keyboard.
The prompt hung for three agonizing seconds. Then, it returned without an error. mount vmfs under windows
As the progress bar inched forward, Aris leaned back. The hum of the server room returned to a gentle whisper. He had done it. He had tricked Windows into speaking the language of the hypervisor. He didn't rewrite the kernel. He didn't recompile a driver. He just used a fuse layer and raw block access. He had used the tool a hundred times
vmfs-fuse.exe F:\ C:\mount_point