dissect.vmfs#
A Dissect module implementing a parser for the VMFS file system, used by VMware virtualization software.
Installation#
dissect.vmfs
is available on PyPI.
$ pip install dissect.vmfs
This module is also automatically installed if you install the dissect
package.
Usage#
This package is a library with no CLI tools, so you can only interact with it from Python. For example, to print a directory listing of the root directory and read a file:
from dissect.vmfs import LVM, VMFS
fh = open_vmfs_volume() # i.e. using dissect.volume
lvm = LVM([fh]) # First open a VMFS LVM on one or more disks
fs = VMFS(lvm) # Then open the filesystem on the LVM
print(fs.get("/").listdir())
file_fh = fs.get("/file.txt").open() # This is just another file-like object
print(file_fh.read())
Reference#
For more details, please refer to the API documentation of dissect.vmfs
.