you are right, the following command: 7z i
shows all supported archive formats will look into FUSE filesystem Thanks -D On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 9:01 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > >
