On 2018-08-05, Dan Tran wrote: > Thanks for the explanation
> my vmware's vmdk file starts out with 'KDMV'. This explains about the > stack trace. > additional info > * 7z for windows can uncompress it, but not 7z for linux, and winzip for > windows > * commons-vfs does not support 7z/vmdk format. > https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/filesystems.html I'm not an expert at all, but I think vmdk is not really related to 7z at all, it just happens that 7z (on Windows) can read vmdks. When I suggested VFS would be a better fit I was thinking about which Commons component would be a good home if anybody wanted to add support for vmdks - not that support was already there. Sorry I was misleading you. > so 7z for windows is the only option which I can't use since my CI is on > Linux A quick search lead me to http://forensicswiki.org/wiki/VMWare_Virtual_Disk_Format_(VMDK) which again linked to https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk/ which contains a tool to mount vmdks as FUSE file systems on Linux (among ither things). So I think there are more options if you dig deeper. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
