Mounting a hard drive in VmWare Player?

Question

linux

You need to transfer Linux from a virtual machine to a working machine. Everything spins in vmware player. I decided to just make a hard copy using dd. Installed vmware tools, connected hard drive. But the problem is that it is mounted as a folder, so you can't do dd anymore. Question: is it possible to somehow connect a hard disk to a virtual machine so that it is visible as a disk, and not as a directory.

Answer 1

Without understanding vmware tools, I can advise like this - do dd in two passes:
1. disk on the virtual machine -> file
2. file -> disk on the physical

Answer 2

Try to share some directory (NFS, FTP, SMB), mount it in a virtual machine and run dd from under it, saving it to this folder. You may need to boot from a LiveCD to be sure.

Answer 3

vmvar (I don’t know about the player, I haven’t used it for a long time) allows you to mount a physical hard drive to the virtual machine directly. like virtualbox, like ESXi with Hyper-V

Answer 4

figured it out. it was necessary to do add in the settings, but I got stuck on mounting something