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# Create a 10 GB eagerzeroedthick (flat) disk vmkfstools -c 10G -d eagerzeroedthick mydisk.vmdk vmkfstools -i source.vmdk destination.vmdk -d eagerzeroedthick 3. Mounting/Reading a Flat VMDK On a Linux system with VMware tools or libguestfs :

What is a Flat VMDK? A flat VMDK ( -flat.vmdk ) is the raw, binary data file that contains the actual contents of a virtual machine's virtual hard disk. It represents the disk in a monolithic (single-file) format where data is stored in a plain, non-sparse format. vmware flat vmdk

# Mount a flat VMDK directly (offset calculation may be needed) losetup /dev/loop0 myvm-flat.vmdk # Or use guestmount guestmount -a myvm-flat.vmdk -i /mnt/vmdisk If you have a flat file but lost the descriptor: # Create a 10 GB eagerzeroedthick (flat) disk